Word: ovum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Writing in Fertility in Marriage (Farrar, Straus; $3), Dr. Louis Portnoy of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital put his faith in the basal temperature curve, which drops lower each month at about the time an ovum (egg) is released by the ovary, then rises sharply again, thus marking the most favorable time for conception. This is nonsense, snaps Dr. Edmond J. Farris-no M.D., but an anatomist (Ph.D.) who has trodden on many a medical toe with his hobnailed views...
...Farris method, two immature female white rats are injected with the woman's urine each day. Then the rats are killed. The time when the woman's ovum will be released is predicted by observing the reddening of the rats' ovaries. With that knowledge, a physician can advise a couple when to have relations with the best chance of causing conception-sometimes fixing the time as precisely as a six-to-twelve-hour period, Dr. Farris claims. Some extreme examples: one man left a board meeting, at which he was being elected executive vice president...