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Word: caesarean (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Felicia Delgado Gomez, by Caesarean section. Although precocious, Felicia was not the youngest child-mother in the medical records: 15 years ago a Peruvian girl, believed to be no older than five, bore a 6-lb. boy. Before she left the hospital hale and hearty at week's end, Felicia posed in bed with her baby and prized doll. ¶ A plan to make color films of patients under psychoanalysis was broached by Dr. David Shakow of the National Institute of Mental Health. Purpose: to show the films to groups of other analysts, enabling them to study each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Dec. 20, 1954 | 12/20/1954 | See Source »

...second time in three years, Chicago doctors were faced with a problem rare in medical history: what to do about Siamese twins joined together at the top of their heads. Deborah Marie and Christine Mary were born (by Caesarean section) a fortnight ago to Norene Andrews, 35, a former nurse, wife of a meat salesman, and mother of a normal five-year-old girl. The twins, who weighed about 6 Ibs. each at birth, ate normally, and woke or slept independently of each other, were united in much the same way as the famed Brodie twins (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Joined Twins | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

...Joseph L. McAndrew, 38, a slender housewife from Watch Hill, R.I., had her eleventh successful Caesarean operation (a world record, A.M.A. archives indicated) in 14 years of marriage. Ten children are living; one was killed in an auto accident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, may 3, 1954 | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

Born. To Shirley Temple, 25, onetime Hollywood child star, and her second husband, Charles A. Black, 35, former TV executive: their second child (her third), first daughter; by Caesarean section; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Lori Alden. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 19, 1954 | 4/19/1954 | See Source »

...identical twins, but the separation was never completed. When Margaret Hartley's time came, the doctors could not complete a normal delivery. Since they could detect heartbeats, it was their duty to give the fetus every chance of entering the world alive. So Dr. Vance Chattin did a Caesarean section...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Not Quite Twins | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

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