Word: kupferstein
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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When Mrs. Eugene Kupferstein went to Williamsburgh General Hospital in Brooklyn for her first delivery, her physician confidently promised her two babies. Sure enough, Dr. Isaac Diamond soon delivered a 4 Ib. 8 oz. boy who was named Aaron. But the second baby showed no sign of being ready to be born, as it should have if the two had been ordinary twins. So Dr. Diamond induced labor, and late that night Mrs. Kupferstein gave birth to a second boy (4 Ibs. 13 oz.) named Herman. Said Dr. Diamond: the boys, though born to the same mother on the same...
...Diamond had discovered, when Mrs. Kupferstein went to him a couple of years ago complaining of inability to conceive, that she had double reproductive organs, including two wombs. Minor surgery helped Mrs. Kupferstein to conceive, but Dr. Diamond expected that this would occur in only one womb, which would then crowd the other and make it inoperative. To his surprise, X rays of two developing fetuses showed that conception had occurred in both at about the same time...
...Most unusual," doctors said of the Kupferstein case last week. As if to belie them, Mrs. Henry Peterson of Seekonk, Mass, was even then in a Providence hospital where she gave birth to two boys (5 Ibs. 13 oz. and 5 Ibs. 14 oz.), also from two wombs...
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