Word: fetuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...circular rim of the earth like a blue derby). Mair used to make all human beings in a pot, but one day a silly woman walked past one of the pots and peeked into it-ruining a half-made baby. Mair was so angry that he picked up the fetus and threw it in the woman's belly. "That'll teach you to be inquisitive," he said. "Now you'll have to bear children, and ... it will hurt." So women must be hantan...
...patients with cataracts and other defects were born a few months after their mothers had German measles. The question remained just how frequently the disease causes such damage. Now Harvard University's Dr. Theodore H. Ingalls has an answer, based on detailed checkups of what happened to the fetus in 147 Massachusetts cases of rubella in the first three months of pregnancy. The statistical result: almost 15% stillbirths, an equal number with severe deformity or crippling...
Prenatal. X rays of pregnant women may endanger the fetus. Oxford University researchers report that among the mothers of British children who had died of leukemia X rays of the pelvis during pregnancy (necessarily exposing the entire fetus to radiation) had been twice as common as among the mothers of other children. This was no conclusive finding, but a warning flag against haphazard X rays of the pregnant...
...relaxin. In a human, the drug does not work as drastically as in gophers, but it has the effect of "softening" tissues in the birth canal. It does not simply make delivery easier-though it does that too. Its chief virtue is to halt premature labor so that a fetus can be carried to term, or nearly so. In 75% of 200 cases so far, Releasin has been successful in thus arresting premature labor...
...from 110,000 lbs. of sow ovaries a year the laboratories extract 100 ounces of Releasin. This is enough for seven injections for each of 18,000 patients-fewer than one in ten of the U.S. women who annually go into premature labor after the sixth month, when the fetus has a chance of survival. Cost of a seven-shot course: $150 to $175, depending on hospital markups...