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...second-class bus, a European traveler (Andre Toffel) is dying of cerebrospinal meningitis. His wife (Michele Morgan) rushes out to look for the local doctor, but all she finds is a wambling wreck (Gerard Philipe) who has not dared to push a pill since his wife died in a childbirth he drunkenly mismanaged...
...Hostess-with-the-Mostes' Perle Mesta turned up as a guest traveloguist at the Woman's National Democratic Club, startled the ladies with a tale of a "birth house" she saw in Russia in 1953. Perle's theory: the Soviets brainwash expectant mothers to achieve painless childbirth. In the maternity center she had observed 20 women, "none in pain. They took one or two deep breaths and the child was born." Added Perle: "They used the same brainwash for the mothers that they used for the war prisoners and soldiers [see SCIENCE...
...Limitation of births, however, is not considered necessarily sinful when brought about through abstinence or the avoidance of intercourse during fertile periods (assuming that they can be determined). Said a Vatican official ast week: "If the institute's initiative eads to the discovery of another way to avoid childbirth without thwarting the end of coitus, the Vatican will certainly examine it tolerantly...
...apostle of "natural" childbirth without fear or pain (achieved by building up the mother's confidence and training her to relax), Britain's Dr. Grantly Dick Read had long had a nagging doubt. His theory and practice had been worked out with women in societies far removed from a state of nature. What of the women closest to nature? In 1953, at 63, Dr. Dick Read headed into darkest Africa to find...
...Time for Fear (Harper; $3.50), he reports that he found what he was looking for. Among Bushmen and Basutos, Hottentots and Masai, from 95% to 98% go through childbirth like his own prize patients, with no untoward pain. Notable exceptions are women who have committed adultery: they often have long and difficult labor. Dr. Dick Read was amazed to learn of women who had been in painful labor for two or three days but who, when persuaded to confess their adultery, suddenly relaxed and "released the baby from the birth canal in a few minutes with no further trouble." These...