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...sperm survival at two hours. The patient said her last period began June 8, so by Naegele's rule, the confinement was due about March 15. But her history was bad -a Latzko Caesarean section for Bandl's ring and toxemia-and we found a hydatid of Morgagni then. On pelvic examination, Skene's ducts were normal, but the left Bartholin gland was slightly enlarged. Chadwick's sign was positive. A Papanicolaou smear was negative. Her Aschheim-Zondek was positive...
Three Slaves. In between are such notables as Caspar Bartholin (1655-1738), who identified the vulvovaginal lubricating glands; Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682-1771), a versatile anatomist; Friedrich Trendelenburg (1844-1924), who perfected the head-down, hips-up position for surgery on the pelvis; Isidor Clinton Rubin (1883-1958), who devised a way of blowing C02 through the Fallopian tubes as a fertility test; and the team of Selmar Aschheim, 80, and Bernhard Zondek, 67, whose mouse test has answered-millions of times, quickly and accurately-the question: "Am I pregnant...
William Osier (1849-1919), Canadian, was a great teacher in the U. S. and England; wrote extensively. Most of these men lived to a ripe old age, to study, heal and teach. Of the moderns, Lister and Morgagni were 85 years old at death. (Hippocrates was either 99 or 73 according to conflicting dim reports of his life.) The youngest to die was Laennec...
Some British correspondents preferred to put Morgagni among the first five instead of Hunter on the grounds of precedence in time...
Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682-1771), Italian, studied the pathology of the organs...
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