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...then an adult. Can one pick out a moment in the process and say that up until then it was not human? The fetus is not, as some claim, just a part of the mother's body. It is distinct from her genetically and physically. It may not yet exent all the human faculties that it could later, but then neither do babies after they are born, children, the mentally deficient, senile people, amputees, or paraplegics. Are we to decide that they, for their own welfare or others' are better off dead...
...newly published French monograph, L'Exentération pelvienne, Dr. Brunschwig reports that no fewer than 116 of his 562 patients have lived five years or longer after the operation. Virtually all have been glad that they submitted to the extensive amputation, even though many have had to wear a bag strapped to their waists to collect urine and feces. Some have been able to work for years, with no outward sign of their condition...
According to Dean D. L. Edsall, the community life of the hall has increased to great exent not only the social and athletic side of Medical School life, but also, through the contacts made the students with resident instructors and with each other, has increased the intellectual activity, interest in cultural and medical problems...
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