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Sitting under a dark red painting of a huge human fetus in his living room in Ghent, Belgian Painter Octave Landuyt recalled a bit of his childhood. "I lived with my parents in a flat over a local slaughterhouse," he said. "I used to play among dying animals and heaps of entrails, while blood ran in the gutters. I saw bulls stagger under the deathblow, heave up again and again. It all had a primeval greatness...
...stage, could it be that this potent medicine could be the direct cause for the molecular reaction, DNA, to, or part thereof to be tranquilized and in this manner the DNA could not get the report through to the molecules responsible for the growth of the extremities of the fetus. In other words, could it be possible that Thalidomide could be directly responsible for the molecular reaction to revert back to the beginning of man (evolution) or the beginning of life itself known to this earth. If we came originally from sea life and transcended to the parts...
...hide her condition," writes Dr. Bauer, "the unwed mother attempts to conceal her enlarging abdomen by pulling in her buttocks, much as the cowed dog tucks his tail between his legs. This flattens the abdomen and reduces the lumbar lordosis [curvature of the lower spine]. In this position the fetus lies more parallel to the maternal spine and the abdominal muscles are less stretched." By contrast, "the married mother carries her pride before her like a banner, and drags behind her a crippling backache which often becomes chronic...
With a simple diagram showing the stress points of pregnancy and how the fetus may stretch the abdomen (see cut), Dr. Bauer tries to persuade his married patients to look as though they...
...also the star of a daily 55-minute Romper Room program on Phoenix's KTAR-TV. To quiet her nerves and ensure sleep, Sherri Finkbine took some of the British pills-in the second month of her pregnancy, when the danger that the drug will damage the fetus is greatest. Only then did she learn that what she had been taking was thalidomide. Her own doctor and others who were called in recommended an abortion. The Finkbines agreed...