Word: caesarean
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Most people believe that the caesarean operation is so named because Julius Caesar was born that way. Most people are wrong. Julius had a normal delivery, but he is linked to that operation because an early ancestor, Scipio Africanus, was excised from his mother's dead body. To mark his miraculous birth, Scipio's father called him "the cut-out one"-or in Latin, Caesar. Actually, the operation predates even the first Caesar by centuries. It is one of the oldest on record, but was performed only after the mother had died. The first known caesarean...
...level of H in. Police, firemen and volunteers rushed dry ice to hospitals to keep stored blood from spoiling, sent generators to those that needed them, rigged electrical heart-pacer machines to auxiliary power, and hand-pumped iron lungs. A delicate corneal transplant, a five-hour craniotomy, and a caesarean section were performed under light from makeshift sources; five dozen babies were delivered...
Born. To R. Sargent Shriver, 49, Peace Corps and Poverty War director; and Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 43: their fifth child, fourth son (her first caesarean); in Boston. Name: Paul Fitzgerald Kennedy...
...occurrence, except for one rare sculpture of a dejected girl at term. Dr. Weisman speculates that "she's only eleven or twelve. I think it is her first baby and she's worried about it." A series of works showing midline incisions in pregnant women suggests that caesarean sections may have been common...
Born. To Senator Robert Francis Kennedy, 39, and Ethel Skakel Kennedy, 36: their ninth child, sixth son (her third caesarean); in Manhattan's Roosevelt Hospital. Weight: 8 lbs. The new addition fulfills Ethel's oft-expressed wish to have as many children as Bobby's parents had. It brings the number of Joe's and Rose's grandchildren...