Word: caesareans
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...week at a baby story in their Medical Journal. The baby's young mother, when seven months pregnant, had accidentally shot herself in the abdomen. A surgeon found that the .22 bullet had gone through her uterus. He sewed up the mother's wounds, deciding against a Caesarean for fear of infection. Five days later a premature 5½ lb. baby was born alive and healthy except for a bloodless bullet hole drilled neatly through its thigh...
Born. To Mexico's energetic President Miguel Alemán, 44, and Beatriz Velasco de Alemán, 36; their third child (first in 13 years), a son; by Caesarean section in a Mexico City hospital. Name: Jorge Francisco. The relieved father rushed off to Cuernavaca, shot some better-than-usual (84) golf...
Even the South had never seen anything quite like the Caesarean operation by which Hummon was jerked out of obscurity, blessed by the General Assembly, bathed in publicity, and installed in the governor's mansion in his pappy's place. Neither had it seen anything like the comic opera alarums & excursions which followed it. During the week Georgia had endured not one but three governors. Both retiring Governor Ellis Gibbs Arnall and Lieut. Governor Melvin E. Thompson, once Arnall's executive secretary, had set up governments-in-exile. And Georgia had been all but inundated...
...Penicillin should be given as a standard practice, in most surgery; it is particularly useful in certain types of Caesarean operations which present great danger of infection...
...horse & buggy he got around to miners' huts and farmers' sickbeds. He went down mine shafts after many a mining accident, delivered three generations of babies, as often as not without being paid. When a Caesarean seemed indicated, Dr. Porter, no surgeon, did the best he could without operating. When women standing around during a tough birth got hysterical, Dr. Porter shouted: "Shut up or I'll throw the whole goddamned bunch of you into the road." During one delivery of a young mother with gonorrhea, he picked up an infection, lost...