Word: gynecologist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight, bothered by a heaviness in her belly at night, the old woman screwed up her courage to see Dr. Joseph Gilbert Israel, crack Detroit gynecologist. Dr. Israel palpated her abdomen, discovered a hard, round object like a baseball. His first astonished thought was that she, aged 66, was going to have a baby. But the object was too hard to be a living baby's head. Besides it was outside the womb...
...Gynecologist Thomas Stephen Cullen has taught every student who ever graduated from Johns Hopkins Medical School. Nearly as famous for his practical jokes as for his surgical exploits, Dr. Cullen has been known to list his occupation as "interior decorator," has upon occasion posed for anatomical illustrations in medical texts. Several years ago at ceremonies to install Dr. Roland Hill as president of the St. Louis Medical Society, a large box was presented to the guest of honor, after a long speech celebrating his accomplishments. Urged by his distinguished colleagues to open the box, Dr. Hill removed the lid, took...
Laborite Member of Parliament Dr. Edith Summerskill is a belligerent feminist. She is also a top-notch gynecologist and mother of two children. Her husband, likewise a doctor, works in London's famed Harley Street, where doctors' fees are reputed highest in the world. During the House of Commons' question time one day last week, Edith Summerskill, M.P., M.D., stood up and asked: "Will the Prime Minister consider the introduction of legislation to compel wage earners to disclose their wages to their wives?" The other eight women M.P.s sat up in their seats, the 341 men* took...
...1920s, domestic court judges and psychiatrists were popular U. S. oracles on marriage. Their pronouncements usually were guesses, often contradicted each other. While some commentators, for example, said adultery was the chief cause of divorce, others contended it was poverty, low mentality, drink, nagging. Gynecologist T. H. Van de Velde spurned such simple explanations, went so far as to assert that mating should be between "a cyclothymic pycnic woman and a schizothymeleptosome...
Process of insemination is equally simple. With a syringe a gynecologist introduces a few drops of semen directly into the cervical canal, lower part of the uterus. Best time for artificial insemination is the fertile period occurring from ten days to two weeks after menstruation begins. More complicated are the legal arrangements. Both husband and wife must sign a joint agreement permitting the wife to bear the child of a third person. The identity of the donor is kept secret, and if he is married his wife must give her written consent as well. Other practical suggestions made...