Word: childbirth
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...female subjects of gynecology's heroes honored. Three who suffered, willy-nilly, in the cause of surgical progress were the slaves Anarcha. Betsy and Lucy, on whom the flamboyant South Carolinian James Marion Sims (1813-83) operated repeatedly to perfect a method of closing openings (the result of childbirth injury) between the bladder and vagina-then one of the most distressing complaints that woman was heir to. Dr. Sims is honored with a statue in Manhattan's Central Park, but the slaves are not even named in Dr. Speert's index...
...practices associated with the worship of the goddess. Though best known to the Greeks as the virgin huntress, she was from earliest times the patroness of pregnant women. Husbands made appropriate contributions, and Diana's priestesses inherited the jewelry, clothing and other possessions of women who died in childbirth. Many of these offerings were found in the silty soil of Vraona...
Country doctor Jean Gabin manages to make natural childbirth seem so natural that his patient is permitted to have her baby on screen...
...Case of Dr. Laurent (French). A baby is born on-camera in the final scene, but far earlier than that, Jean Gabin, as a kindly rural doctor, and Nicole Courcel, as his first natural-childbirth convert, have given the film warm, memorable appeal...
...Case of Dr. Laurent (French). A baby is born on-camera in the final scene, but far earlier than that, Jean Gabin, as a kindly rural doctor, and Nicole Courcel, as his first natural-childbirth convert, have given the film warm, memorable appeal...