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Back in the 1930s, surrealism was hot news, with its limp watches, ovarian vegetables and chance encounters between sewing machines and umbrellas on dissecting tables. Last week, in what amounted to an unexpected revival, two practitioners of that sleight of art were back on the boards in Manhat tan, looking for all the world like the ghost of Christmas Past...
...promising for eventual cure of infertility in a small proportion of women. The Swedish extract has even been shown to restore fertility in a man who had lost it because of an operation for pituitary cancer. But there is some danger that the injections may promote the growth of ovarian cysts, and have other harmful side effects. Nobody is preparing the pituitary extract for general use. Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley, Calif., has sole rights to make and market Pergonal in the U.S., but it will take the FDA months or years to decide whether the drug should be cleared...
...idea that a woman should have a hysterectomy or have her ovarian tubes tied off after the third caesarean, say the D.C. doctors, is a fallacy dating back a quarter-century, when the incision for the delivery was made vertically through the upper part of the wall of the womb. This is the thickest, most muscular part, and is also closest to other vital organs that may be damaged in the operation...
...part of the acknowledged armory of modern medicine to hold the climacteric responsible for all complaints arising in this period of a woman's life. The absence of specific symptoms is immaterial...Every complaint from toothache to corns may be explained by ovarian deficiency, and thus held to be merely functional-a consideration which delights the doctor but has never yet cured a patient...
Surgeons have been removing the ovaries of women with advanced cancer of the breast on the theory that the ovarian hormones (estrogens) favor the growth of the cancer. But Dr. Olof H. Pearson of Manhattan's Memorial Center found that this surgery seemed to slow the spread of such cancers in only 30% to 50% of the cases. With two other doctors, he conducted a close study of cases to learn...