Word: caesarean
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Jesse Bennett's wife was having a difficult labor. She thought she was going to die and asked for a Caesarean operation in the hope that her child, at least, might be saved. The doctor attending her refused. But Jesse Bennett was a physician himself. He put his wife to sleep with a whopping dose of laudanum. She lay on planks set across two barrels. One sweep of the knife laid open the abdomen and soon a baby girl was extracted. Before he closed the incision, Dr. Bennett removed both ovaries, remarking that he "would not be subjected...
That was on Jan. 14, 1794. Mrs. Bennett recovered quickly and her daughter flourished. But for many years, Dr. Bennett made no report of this, the first successful Caesarean operation in the U.S. For, said he, other doctors would never believe that a woman could survive this hazardous operation, done in the backwoods of Virginia, and he was "damned if he'd give them a chance to call him a liar...
When Izene Hawley figured that she was past due, a friend talked her into visiting the Pueblo Clinic. Dr. Bramer called in other physicians and they decided to do a Caesarean section. But before her appointment for surgery, Mrs. Hawley had cramps, was admitted to Parkview Episcopal Hospital. When Dr. Bramer got to her, the baby's foot had slipped back through the abdominal wall. With surprising ease, the baby's body was massaged out of the uterus, through the incision to a fairly normal delivery. Thelma Jean Hawley weighed...
...Caesarean. In 1937 the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. brought out Woman's Day to plug A. & P. lines. Now the giant of the field (circ. 3.900,000), the magazine crams its 124 to 188 slick pages with national ads, moony love stories and how-to-do-it articles (samples: how to re-string pearls, build cabinets, read faster, eat on a low budget). But A. & P. takes little profit out of its Woman's Day. The cash is put into more color pages and better copy to dress up the lure for shoppers...
...seem to love. The leading story is a cheerful piece on a day in the life of an obstetrician, by Old Standby Faith Baldwin. Sample quote: "If she proved to have a generally contracted pelvis, the measurements and the X ray would chart his course of action-a low Caesarean section, he hoped." Concludes the doctor at day's end: "What a wonderful job I have, what a wonderful life...