Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...article "The Glass Womb" [which described the fertilization of a human egg on glass slides] made me wince at the way some men can tamper with the laws of nature and morality as they please, and appear justified in doing so. I think there is a point that Dr. Petrucci has failed to realize: if Dr. Petrucci is actually growing human life, he will be committing murder each time he kills one of the specimens...
...problem today is to limit births, not increase them." The doctors collected live ova from Petrucci's female patients during hysterectomy or after sudden death. Since the ova had to be ripe for fertilization, Petrucci scheduled his female patients' uterine operations to coincide with the egg's maturation. Sperm was obtained from male patients who brought Petrucci semen for fertility analysis...
...insemination outside the human body is not new; Harvard's Dr. John Rock first achieved it in 1944. What is remarkable is that Dr. Petrucci kept one fertilized egg alive for 29 days, and had to kill it because it was growing "monstrous." U.S. scientists have managed a test-tube life span of six days...
Herring gulls which lay only one egg "fail to receive the proper psychological stimulation" and hence will not sit on the egg as much as a three-egg mother sits on hers, Raymond A. Paynter, associate curator of birds at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, said last night...
Speaking to five avid members of the Harvard Ornithological Club, Paynter outlined the results of his study of 25,000 to 30,000 gulls on Kent Island, in the Bay of Fundy. The mortality rate in a one-egg clutch is 75 per cent, he said, compared with only 20 per cent for a nest with three eggs...