Word: fallopian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After hearing the old woman's story, Dr. Israel guessed that what probably happened was this: After the ovum was fertilized, instead of traveling normally down the fallopian tube, it traveled upward, broke out into the abdominal cavity, caught and clung to the outside of the womb, received enough nourishment there to develop normally. But since it was outside the womb, the labor contractions could not expel it, and it died...
...years ago Harvard's Physiologist Gregory Goodwin Pincus placed a rabbit's ova in a bottle with a rabbit's sperm, shook them together for 20 minutes. Next he placed the fertilized ova in the fallopian tube of a rabbit doe who 33 days later bore a litter of six healthy bunnies. They were no kin to her. She was simply their host-mother (TIME, March...
...urchin eggs in very salty water, of producing fatherless frogs by pricking frog eggs with a needle. Dr. Pincus soaked some rabbit ova in brine. Other rabbit ova he heated to 113° F., about 10° above normal. When he placed salted or heated ova in the fallopian tubes of rabbits, the rabbits became pregnant. Too impatient to wait 33 days for normal parturition, he killed the does, slit them open, found well-developed rabbit embryos inside, proclaimed the first parthogenesis of a mammal...
...revealed that Mother Hewitt had received some $9,000 of Daughter Hewitt's own income to pay for her sterilization. What surgical procedure had been used remained publicly in doubt. Commonest techniques of female sterilization are to remove the ovaries or to tie off or cauterize the Fallopian tubes. Ordinarily an abdominal incision is involved, though cauterization may be accomplished dangerously by entrance through the uterus. Drs. Tillman & Boyd stoutly maintained that they had respectively recommended and performed sterilization because Daughter Hewitt was feebleminded, declared their action was an everyday occurrence. "I didn't worry about the legal...
Gonococci most frequently infect Fallopian tubes and ovaries; streptococci and staphylococci, the uterus. To cure such infections in women, doctors used to be obliged to resort to surgery. Dr. Virgil Sheetz Counsellor of the Mayo Clinic, recently told his colleagues that he cured 73% of such inflammatory cases with the Elliott treatment applied an hour a day for two to three weeks. Dr. Simpson in his last week's account reported 90% cures without surgery...