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Human Growth calls a Fallopian tube a Fallopian tube. Through this film and question-&-answer periods stimulated by it, Oregon hoped to take sex education out from behind the barn and into the class room...
...Abdominal pregnancy results from a freakish failure of the fertilized egg to pass through a Fallopian tube to the uterus. The placenta attaches itself, like a parasite, to abdominal organs or membranes. The pregnancy is painful because the placenta irritates the tissues and the baby kicks the nerve-rich peritoneum (abdominal lining). When they discover the condition, doctors usually operate at once...
...Meets Egg. One important contributing factor in sterility. Dr. Hamblen claims, is the fact that few people understand even the mechanics of conception. Spermatozoa (self-propelled male germs), when deposited in the female cervix (neck of the uterus), swim into the uterine cavity, then up through the pencil-sized fallopian tubes...
Sterile Women. Chief cause of barrenness in women is obstruction of the fallopian tubes. Tube closures are caused by gonorrhea, bungled abortions, other infections. About half of them cannot be repaired. Other closures can be opened by flushing iodized oil through the tubes. Sometimes a woman needs as many as ten or 15 oil treatments before conception occurs...
...pills, and especially a quiet, moderate life with plenty of exercise and nutritious food. (Farmers, says Dr. Hamblen, seldom have to worry.) Temporary sterility may be caused by fever, or a heavy dose of sulfanilamide. Serious physical hurts, such as damaged testes, are usually irreparable. Sometimes sperm ducts, like fallopian tubes, become obstructed, can occasionally be opened by a catheter...