Word: obstetrician
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...skilled physicians from Harley and Wimpole Streets, earnest young medical students, smart socialites. Defendant in the case, charged with performing an abortion on a 14-year-old girl who was seven weeks with child, was a lean, greying, studious man, Dr. Aleck William Bourne, 52, top-flight gynecologist and obstetrician...
...even more poignant cry for information on this touchy subject (see p. 57) rose in Manhattan last week. At a discussion on marriage, conducted by the New York Province of College Catholic Clubs, a young woman asked: "Is the rhythmic cycle [of infertility] reliable in the average woman?" Replied Obstetrician Frederick Walter Rice: "The rhythmic cycle is the only recourse left to the Catholic. It will be only when physicians can give data about each woman in regard to the cycle that Catholics can live freely within the moral...
Quantities of human blood are lost each year in childbirth. Much of it is blood which obstetricians leave in the placenta by clamping umbilical cords, doing so in the belief that they thereby make the afterbirth easy and complete. This practice "never had any scientific appeal" to Obstetrician James Robert Goodall of Montreal. "Why waste all this valuable material?" he asked. He and his assistants* experimented, found no harm done to mothers by draining placental blood immediately upon birth, found-as he announced in this month's Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics-that it can be stored indefinitely and that...
What agitated the new president of the League, Dr. Richard Norris Pierson, fashionable Manhattan obstetrician, was the need for money. He did not know just how much money the Birth Controllers would need for their year's program. But they already have planned their spring campaign. The slogan: "Planned Parenthood...
Chicago is the home of some of the nation's foremost baby specialists (notably Northwestern University's Isaac Arthur Abt and University of Illinois' Julius Hays Hess) and the world's No. 1 obstetrician -Dr. Joseph Bolivar De Lee. He tirelessly preaches that, to prevent the spread of infection among mothers and children, all hospitals should not only have separate sections but separate buildings for the delivery and nursing of children and the convalescence of post partum women...