Word: menstrual
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conservative Italian members of the Pope's blue ribbon panel of experts, represents a new direction in official Catholic thinking on marriage problems. For that reason, a dissenting minority has objected strongly and urged that the only concession be approval of the pill to help regularize the female menstrual cycle, thus making more reliable the rhythm method of birth control. The final word on the problem is up to Pope Paul, who has categorized the decision as "agonizing" and is unlikely to issue his decree before September...
...Sessions Clock Co. for $19.95 and coyly named "The Lady," it is designed to aid memory and math in the practice of the rhythm method of birth control. Essentially, it is a calendar clock with refinements. First, the lady of the house calculates her shortest and longest menstrual cycles. After consulting a simplified table that comes with the instructions, she turns, pulls and pushes the clock's "cycle dial" until she has locked into it information concerning her period of probable fertility. At the beginning of each menstrual cycle, she merely sets the dial in the warning window...
...clocks were sold across the country. The Lady is, of course, subject to the dangers of error inherent in the rhythm method. And it relies on the dependability of the information fed into it. Physicians warn potential buyers that they who are not sure of their shortest and longest menstrual cycles should keep careful records for at least a year before going by the clock...
...nature has worked things out, a woman secretes a moderate amount of estrogenic hormones during the first ten or twelve days of her menstrual cycle. At about the time she ovulates, releasing into her Fallopian tubes an egg ready for fertilization, her output of estrogens rises sharply. Had it been at this higher level all along, she never would have ovulated. Soon after ovulation, estrogen output declines and there is a sudden increase in a different hormone-progesterone, sometimes called "nature's contraceptive," which prevents ovulation until the next cycle...
Some women, to be sure, sail through menopause experiencing no more than changes in menstrual flow. But as post-menopausal aging continues, skin begins to lose its tone, bosoms their lift and bones their hardness. Fatty deposits may pile up in the arteries and leave a woman vulnerable to heart at tacks. Regular doses of estrogens, says the University of Chicago's Dr. M. Edward Davis, can delay the onset of such changes and diminish their impact. There is even a test-an adaptation of the familiar "Pap smear" for detecting uterine cancer-that indicates how much medication...