Word: kanter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paul G. Bamberg '38, Mattapan; Elliott Bresnick '39, Dorchester; Ira Chart '37, Dorchester; Louis J. Dunham, Jr. '39, Dorchester; Stanley S. Kanter '38, Mattapan; Philip Levine '39, Dorchester; Bernard A. Orkin '38, Dorchester; Harry Pollard '39, Dorchester; Melvin Richter '37, Dorchester; Sidney Sulkin '39, Dorchester; Theodore H. White '38, Dorchester; and Charles Zibbell '38, Dorchester...
...Called bitterling, the female fish has a small tube protruding from her underside. When the bitterling is about to lay eggs, the tube lengthens and enables her to deposit her ova in the siphon of a fresh water mussel, among whose gills they ripen and hatch. Drs. Aaron Elias Kanter, Carl Philip Bauer & Arthur Herman Klawans of the University of Chicago discovered that a bitterling will stretch her ovipositor, whether or not she needs to lay eggs, if her bowl of water receives as little as one teaspoonful of urine from a pregnant woman. Female sex hormones apparently stimulate this...
...femininity in their constitutions. When the urine of an occasional nonpregnant woman was discovered to be stimulating to the bitterling, experimenters admitted themselves bewildered. The bitterling lost her standing and the doe rabbit and mouse were reinstated as nature's best indicators of human pregnancy. But Obstetricians Kanter and Klawans pursued the matter with another research mate, Physiologist Broda Otto Barnes, secured further results which they detailed in Science last week...
...Hypnotism has been used repeatedly for many years in an endeavor to alleviate the pains of childbirth, but has not been found successful except in the case of hysterical individuals who have been repeatedly hypnotized and are therefore especially amenable to the power of suggestion." Dr. Kanter: "I have been hypnotizing people for about six months.'' Last year in North Carolina a baby was born in a well into which its mother had fallen (TIME, Nov. 4). Last week in The West Virginia Medical Journal, Dr. William Price Bittinger of Summerlee, W. Va., reported another birth no less...
Last week news of this unusual, but by no means rare, use of hypnotism as an aid in childbirth reached the world at large, brought Dr. Kanter, 32, more public attention than a decade of orthodox obstetrics could have earned...