Word: cervix
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sperm Meets Egg. One important contributing factor in sterility. Dr. Hamblen claims, is the fact that few people understand even the mechanics of conception. Spermatozoa (self-propelled male germs), when deposited in the female cervix (neck of the uterus), swim into the uterine cavity, then up through the pencil-sized fallopian tubes...
Next to closed tubes, the most common cause of infertility is infection of the cervix. This can usually be cleared up by good medical care. Sometimes doses of thyroid extract are needed to stimulate the ovaries. Treatment with ovarian hormones (estrogen and progestin), says the doctor, plays "no significant part in the treatment of sterility." Of course, if both ovaries have been mutilated or removed, a woman is permanently barren...
...George A. Leland, who is in charge of the gynecological clinic, is studying the results of the combined treatment by radium and X-ray of cancer of the cervix. The final results of their work will not be made known for several years, but already there are indications that the work can be better done than with radium alone...
...PATIENCE OF MAIGRET-Georges Simenon-Harcourt, Brace ($2). Two novelettes by a fantastic Frenchman. Inspector Maigret waits while subordinates make the hue and brass hats foam and fret. And presently the guillotine snicks a cervix or Devil's Island claims another Gaul...