Word: fetuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hawley was carrying what seemed to be a normal baby in an abnormal place -outside the abdomen. The fetus had slipped through a weak spot in the abdominal wall, left by an incision made years ago for a gall-bladder operation. Such cases are uncommon, but not unknown. Far more uncommon was the way Mrs. Hawley had carried the baby without medical attention...
...family physician, Dr. John M. Stephens, 37, a rangy, mustached Calif or-nian, had his patient Xrayed. The fetus, he found, was lying in a wrong position and its head was much too big for normal delivery. Delivery by Caesarean section (less risky than high forceps) was decided on. Worried Husband Mariano Gonzales asked the doctor to do something to keep his wife from having more babies. Dr. Stephens said he would see about...
Last week, a keen-minded Harvard physician offered the most convincing explanation yet of mongolism. It seems, said Dr. Theodore H. Ingalls at the New York Academy of Medicine, to be the result of an injury or shock to the fetus at about the eighth week of pregnancy. This does not mean that the cause is always the same type of injury or shock. In fact, said Dr. Ingalls, the trouble with researchers who have been looking for a single, simple cause is that they were like the three blind men describing an elephant: one found it all foot, another...
...fetus," suggested Dr. Ingalls in explanation, "has been blighted by what might be called intrauterine drought . . . [It may be] a metabolic drought, a biochemical upset, transient vitamin or enzyme deficiency, or oxygen lack." The likelihood that oxygen shortage may be the villain in many cases is heightened, said Dr. Ingalls, by the fact that mongolism often results from a pregnancy marked by early vaginal bleeding, and this bleeding might starve the fetal brain of oxygen...