Word: obstetrician
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...notable caller upon the President last week was Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, obstetrician to the Dionne quintuplets. Said the country doctor on emerging: "All he asked about was those five little babies of mine...
That amniotic fluid might have another use gradually dawned on surgeons, when they realized that women who underwent caesarean sections seldom developed peritonitis. That was because amniotic fluid is a potent germicide. When an obstetrician opens the belly to lift out the child, the protective waters flood all the neighborhood of the womb...
When His Majesty relaxed in mellow mood, with Dictator Kemal half seas over, opportunities to negotiate were nimbly seized by the Talleyrand of Turkey, her perpetual Foreign Minister, Dr. Tewfik Rushdi Bey, who began his career as an obstetrician. Knowing that there is no Persian with whom one can effectively negotiate except the King of Kings, ingratiating Dr. Rushdi sounded His Majesty on the great project of a Middle Eastern Alliance, a bloc to be constructed in spite of Britain and France by Moslems of Turkey, Persia, Irak, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Transjordania and Egypt. Such at least is Dr. Rushdi...
Exactly at 11:35 Pm the white-robed royal obstetrician produced a fine, pink 7 Ib. Prince. Not a Crown Prince, for Their Majesties already had a three-year-old-son, slim little Baudoin who embarrassed his parents while the King was being sworn in by slipping off his big arm chair and climbing into Queen Astrid's lap (TIME, March...
...evening Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, 51. who delivered the quintuplets, telephoned his brother Dr. William Allan Dafoe. 40. Toronto obstetrician: "Can you come out this way? I need your moral support...