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Last week Miss McGraw had a new pair of twins to display-Florie and Margie, 15 months old, born by caesarean section two months prematurely to a onetime domestic servant and an apartment house doorman. Like Jimmy, Margie has received only a child's ordinary training. As a result she is afraid to climb and jump, cannot yet walk or use a kiddy car. A double mastoid operation, from which she last week was recovering, has not noticeably impeded her development. Florie climbs and jumps as readily as Johnny used to. She has temporarily abandoned her kiddy...
Born. To the late Paul F. Donnelly, rich Kansas City dress manufacturer who died last September; and his second wife, Mrs. Virginia George Donnelly, 24; a posthumous, 7 Ib. 15 oz. daughter, by a caesarean section; in Manhattan. The child, to be named Paul Frances, shares a $1,000,000 estate with her mother. Mr. Donnelly's divorced first wife, Nell Quinlan, who bought out his interest in the Donnelly Garment Co. ("Nelly Don" dresses), is now married to onetime Senator James A. Reed...
...plain-living, courageous line of U. S. missionaries in China were the John C. Stams. Both children of Protestant churchmen, they looked remarkably alike: serious, firm-jawed young people with tortoise-shell glasses. Married 14 months ago, Mrs. Stam had her first child, a girl, by a caesarean operation, last September. Outposters of the interdenomi national China Inland Mission, they taught the way of the Lord in Tsingteh in Southern Anhwei Province, 200 miles from Nanking, which is Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's stronghold of law & order...
...paragraph about women who undergo caesarean operations seldom developing peritonitis is not scientifically correct. As a matter of fact, peritonitis following caesarean operation was the cause of death in most cases. That was before the advent of this new technique...
That amniotic fluid might have another use gradually dawned on surgeons, when they realized that women who underwent caesarean sections seldom developed peritonitis. That was because amniotic fluid is a potent germicide. When an obstetrician opens the belly to lift out the child, the protective waters flood all the neighborhood of the womb...