Word: fetal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...condition is by no means rare: hundreds of cases have been reported in medical literature. Most famous case: Mary Tudor, Queen of England. In addition to a distended abdomen, a woman may present other signs of pregnancy such as amenorrhea (absence or suppression of menstruation), full breasts, fetal movements, etc. If a doctor is at all suspicious, a biological test, like the Aschheim-Zondek pregnancy test, will solve the problem. But a few doctors have been taken in by the symptoms...
...sextant, the use of Indian hammocks at sea, of pumps for bilge, copper sheathing against marine borers. He is fascinated -and so is the reader-by every detail of medieval navigation, by Columbus (half inspired zany, fur-collared "thespian"), by the cloudy jumble of zombie myth and fetal science which throng Columbus' mind...
...mistress, old Jo himself does a bit of murder, and finally they all go to England, where Obispo uncovers the Fifth Earl of Gonister, who nominally died a century ago. The secret of living indefinitely has already been solved: the Earl, at 201, has matured into a raging fetal...