Word: caesarean
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...special dispensation. Last November Juanita and Buster were married. In Sapulpa Hospital one night last week Juanita lay in childbed. As her labor pains mounted physicians saw that, because her pelvic bones were still immature, a normal delivery would be difficult, if not dangerous. They decided on a caesarean section. But Juanita's grandmother Annie Dick, who remembers when squaws had babies with less fuss than a hen laying an egg, stood out against it. All night long the physicians argued with her, pointing out that Indian girls of Juanita's generation no longer live the hardworking, outdoor...
...leaped to life a god.' Contrast the Belvedere with the Venus de Milo, the very eidolon of the female form, the Queen of the Loves; the head too small for great intellect but big enough for the greatest love. . . . "Surgery has created its greatest endeavors for woman-the Caesarean section for her unbornable child. McDowell invoked the bold invasion of the abdominal cavity for the removal of the great new growths that made for women untimely graves. This presaged all of the marvelous surgery of the peritoneal interior. It is vision commanded by courage that sails into the domain...
...Francisco, while Dr. William Mills was performing a caesarean operation on Mrs. John Vergez, wife of the New York Giants' third baseman, her pulse stopped. Dr. Mills immediately lanced his left arm, performed a blood transfusion, finished the operation. The child died, Mrs. Vergez was recovering...
...raised, vaguely ambitious to get away to the city and make a name for himself, but little things prevent it. After 20 years, he is still talking about leaving, still accepting vegetables in payment of his fees. When Letty McGinnis (Dorothy Jordan)-at whose birth he performed a Caesarean operation-gets into trouble with young Bill Radford, Dr. Watt has to stay on and see that she recovers from drinking poison. Bill marries Letty. When Bill begins misbehaving and Letty falls ill, it is Dr. Watt, not his son Jimmy, grown into a prosperous young surgeon, who saves her life...
...physician or nurse, resulting in puerperal infection; lack of sufficient good maternity hospitals; insufficient obstetrical training for the general physician; inadequate prenatal care; prevalence of attempts to shorten labor by use of pituitrin to quicken uterine contractions, application of forceps, turning of the baby, forced dilation of the cervix, caesarean operations...