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Silk to Silver. The man who did most to demonstrate the effectiveness of IUCDS did not live to see the dawn of the new age that he pioneered. German Gynecologist Ernst Gräfenberg, born in 1881, began inserting rings in the wombs of his patients in the 1920s. He first used rings made of surgical silk, but soon switched to silver wire. The insertion of wire required dilatation of the cervix, but Dr. Gräfenberg reported few complications and fewer unwanted pregnancies. Yet when other doctors decided to follow his example, there were many complaints-mainly excessive bleeding...
Touring & Swimming. Dr. Brunschwig, a surgeon and gynecologist, decided as long ago as 1934 that some cancer patients for whom all other treatment had failed might be kept alive for several years by operations more drastic than any so far attempted. He began, usually in cases of stomach cancer, by removing most of the stomach, half of the left lobe of the liver, the body and tail of the pancreas, the spleen, the transverse colon and part of the abdominal wall. Of the first 100 patients, 19 lived for one to ten years, including a laborer who went back...
...take the pills for a couple of years, and then stop, will I be able to conceive?" The answer is an emphatic yes. By a sort of rebound effect, the pills increase fertility in women who stop taking them. Indeed, the pills were largely developed by a Roman Catholic gynecologist, Boston's Dr. John Rock, working with Biologist Gregory...
...DEFENDERS (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A gynecologist (Eileen Heckart) is arrested for operating a birth control clinic...
Calling himself "a Catholic gynecologist with a scientific knowledge of sex," John Rock '15, clinical professor of Gynecology, emeritus, uttered a strong appeal for the United States to "set an example for the rest of the world" by holding down the birth rate as much as possible, especially in urban areas...