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...bouncing boy," the nurse told Mrs. Harry James Hardwig when she came out of the anesthetic. So proud Mr. & Mrs. Hardwig sent out cards to all their Los Angeles friends, announcing the birth of a son, Richard Allen Hardwig: "Oh joy, it's a boy!" They also paid to have the baby circumcised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: That's Not My Baby | 5/15/1944 | See Source »

Last week, when the child (renamed Patricia Ann) was ten months old, the Hardwigs' trial began on their $500,000 suit against South Hoover Hospital for the "shock and excitement" Mrs. Hardwig had suffered from the discovery. "We love her," said they of Patricia Ann, "but we don't feel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: That's Not My Baby | 5/15/1944 | See Source »

...birth certificate said the same, but claimed that the mix-up was merely in the records. Osteopath John M. Andrews explained that when the baby arrived he took it "upside down and backwards . . . noted it had two hands and feet" and hastily handed it to a nurse, as Mrs. Hardwig needed all his attention. On the basis of this casual observation from the rear, he had said the child was a boy, and the nurse obediently wrote it down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: That's Not My Baby | 5/15/1944 | See Source »

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