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...which a moored skiff rests upon the ripples of a calm lake." He finds that women like to watch the jerks of the pen. Above all it tells them when they are about to get a pain, when they must bear down.- The Dodek device-he calls it a hysterograph or womb register-has already proved useful to obstetrics. There are a dozen drugs commonly used to save a woman pain and exertion during her labor. The Dodek device indicates just how the uterine musculature reacts to each drug, tells when it is advisable to use one, to discard another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Labor Saver | 8/22/1932 | See Source »

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