Word: obstetrician
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...read of the exploits of an Obstetrician who terms himself "Love's Whitewing, or the D. S. C. of the tender passions," or of the horrible torture Mr. Clippey underwent in his frustrated efforts to "wash his hands," or of the sad plight of "a spinster named Gretel, who wore underclothes made of metal," or chuckle over Mr. Nash's delicate eulogy to a privy. But personally we enjoyed most a little song by Odgen Nash entitled "Quartet For The Sidewalks of New York" from which we quote a stanza...
Being born is a terrific shock to a baby. The mother and obstetrician, says Dr. Kugelmass, should not rush the act. If the baby does not breathe at once, he should not be slapped, tumbled or doused with cold water. Let him lie still, on his back, and receive a little carbon-dioxide gas mixed with oxygen. Any observable deformity (harelip, club feet, etc.) should be mended during the first month or two. Floppy ears will often set if merely held close to the head with adhesive plaster...
...Dionne case leaves me cold. I have something to show you." Thus spoke Obstetrician Edward Armin Schumann of the University of Pennsylvania last week, at a gynecologists' meeting in New Orleans. Upon a screen flashed a lantern-slide picture of six wizened black babies, alike as shoe-buttons. Continued Dr. Schumann: "Here are sextuplets, born to a mother on the African Gold Coast, without the help of modern medicine, without any Dr. Dafoe. These babies were alive and well after eight days, I am informed in a letter from a missionary friend...
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...minute a woman becomes pregnant certain hormones appear in her urine. If she wants to make sure of her pregnancy and can afford the expense, she may send a vial of her urine to her obstetrician. He will have a laboratory associate condense the specimen and inject some of it into the belly of a $1.50 virgin rabbit or a 20? virgin mouse. After two or three days the laboratory associate will kill the rabbit or mouse and examine its ovaries. If the ovaries are swollen, that shows that the woman is pregnant. The obstetrician then sends her the report...