Word: caesareans
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...skillful surgeon, Dr. DeLee developed the modern, low Caesarean operation. He also campaigned for prophylactic forceps delivery, a method of sparing the mother by using forceps early in a predictable, prolonged labor...
Fighting for his infant life in a mechanical respirator, two-year-old Herbert Schneider gasped and almost died. Rushed to the hospital after a traffic accident, Bart Solomon was operated on by candlelight and flashlight. By the same emergency lighting physicians delivered one baby naturally, another by Caesarean section. Storage plants, home electrical appliances, elevators, radio sets all went dead. Set off by the breakage in current, burglar alarms all over the city began to ring. The sirens of police patrol cars added to the weird racket...
...glass for the public. Daniels and St. Jeromes fondled lions in their dens, St. Georges slew dragons by the lanceful; behemoths, leviathans out of Job and seven-headed monsters out of Revelations reared and pranced on many an ancient parchment. An old Flemish manuscript showed St. Margaret being disgorged Caesarean-wise by a repentant dragon who had swallowed her. A fox ogled out-of-reach grapes in the earliest extant copy of Aesop (circa 1000 A.D.). A 15th-Century German volume showed a woodcut of bewildered apes trying to light a fire with the aid of a glow worm...
...Surgeons' Clinical Congress in Chicago last week was tiny, twinkling, 77-year-old Dr. Bertha Van Hoosen. She twinkled over a two-foot, mangerlike box. With this box and a kit of surgeon's tools, she ran a surgical kindergarten, showed scores of women doctors how a Caesarean operation is done...
...Chicago an 8 Ib. 5¼ oz. daughter (Caesarean) was born to famed infantile paralysis victim Frederick Bernard ("Boiler Kid") Snite Jr. and Teresa Larkin Snite. Shortly before, Snite came out of the iron lung that has kept him alive for four years, was photographed outside his tank for the first time since his illness (see cut). A chest respirator, concealed under his coat and connected to bellows by a tube, kept him going...