Word: caesarean
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...Charleroi, Belgium, Gynecologist Jules Hustin had just delivered Mme. Berthe Mahaux of a boy by Caesarean section when her heart stopped. He thrust his hand upward through the Caesarean incision until his fingers could feel the heart. He massaged the heart for five minutes. It began to beat again. Last week Mme. Mahaux and her son went home in good shape...
Died. Dr. Alfred Worcester, 96, Harvard's oldest graduate ('78), surgeon, teacher and writer; of a heart attack; in Waltham, Mass. One of the first in New England to perform an appendectomy and Caesarean section, Worcester went back to Harvard as professor of hygiene (1925-35), authored many papers and books on nursing, sex hygiene and geriatrics, set up Waltham's hospital and nursing school...
...avoid complications in childbirth, the doctors decided upon a Caesarean. Last week, with Dr. Nittis hovering nearby, a technician poured more than a quart of blood into Mrs. Donnelly's veins as two surgeons performed the operation. The patient, under spinal anesthesia, clutched a rosary and a religious medal. When she was told "It's a boy," she murmured "Thank you, dear God," and fell asleep...
Psalms for Courage. It was just such bold medical pioneering in a pioneer land that led to the specialized medical art of gynecology, says British Author Harvey Graham in Eternal Eve (Doubleday; $10). Caesarean section itself,* performed on dead or dying women, was already as old as the Pyramids. The first known Caesarean which did not kill the mother was done in 1500 by Jacob Nufer, a Swiss sow-gelder, on his own wife. In the three centuries after Nufer, European doctors tried rarely (and usually with fatal results) the operation which Dr. Bennett dared and did so well...
...Contrary to common belief, Julius Caesar was born the normal way. The operation got its name because Roman law, which became Lex Caesare, required it to be performed as a last resort. Most noted Caesarean offspring in fact: Scipio Africanus. In fiction: Macduff...