Word: caesarean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that state she was carried to the University of Vienna's gynecological clinic directed by Dr. Wilhelm Weibel. To his trained eye the woman was in a state of eclampsia. Her baby had become a deadly living tumor in her womb, was poisoning her to death. A caesarean section was plainly in order. Dr. Weibel had the woman placed on an operating table and prepared. His assistant, Dr. Ernst Preissecker, loaded a sterilized portable cinema camera to photograph Dr. Weibel at work for the benefit of medical students...
...baby took an untimely breath and mewled. Dr. Weibel, recollecting his proper business, hastily clamped and severed the umbilical cord, laid the baby aside until he could complete his caesarean work on the mother...
...TIME, May 27, Miscellany, you tell of Dentist Klein performing a Caesarean operation on his lady guppy. No ichthyologist would call this the first. This is a common occurrence in domesticated tropical fish. About five years ago, when the writer was 17, he did this twice, once on a guppy, once on a swordtail. You will probably receive many letters in this same vein from other amateur gynecologists. The instrument used in the case of the writer's fish was the split fragment of a razor blade...
...tell of the "guppy Caesarean." I performed one which I feel even more interesting. I had separated the mother guppy from the rest of the fish by placing her in an uncovered bowl. After an absence of several hours I found the mother guppy lying dead and absolutely stiff on the floor, having jumped out of the bowl which 1 had neglected to cover. Being interested in anatomy I decided to see just how the young were arranged in the mother. Imagine my surprise when the first baby I removed straightened out and began to squirm. I got a glass...
...Chicago, Dentist Leonard S. Klein noticed that a female in his fish bowl of guppies was transparently pregnant and overdue. He lifted her out, pricked her with a lancet. Out drained 20 nearly invisible guppies. The 1½-in. mother survived what ichthyologists called the first Caesarean section of a guppy...