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...Klemme reported a new technique of cutting certain sympathetic nerves in the chest, which stops angina pain without harmful effects; Chicago's Surgeon Jacob P. Greenhill said that a similar operation on abdominal sympathetic nerves often gives permanent relief from pain in cancer of the uterus and other pelvic organs. Also effective: an alcohol injection in the spine...
Fifi had given normal birth to one kitten, then continued in labor without further result. Petersen probed her pelvic region, noted that no more kittens were on the way, attempted to stimulate labor with Pituitrin. When the drug failed to act, he operated, found that the afterbirth had become wrapped around the body of a second kitten, killing it and blocking further delivery. A third kitten, delivered more dead than alive through the incision, was revived by artificial respiration...
...half months ago U.S. forces stormed ashore. By last week every native knew that rhythmic rotation of the pelvic girdle was legal again, was enjoying freedom of religion with muscular enthusiasm. Wrote New York Times Correspondent Sidney Shalett, after watching the Angaurese dance...
...Vibration has nothing to do with "riveter's ovaries"-colloquial name for female disorders in general. Pelvic complaints are either coincidental or recurrences of previous disorders from standing up too long...
...nobody paid much attention. But endocrinologists began to get interested when Dr. Hisaw and fellow researchers found the relaxing substance in the blood of pregnant guinea pigs, rabbits, sows, dogs, cats, mares, women. In non-burrowing animals, relaxin dissolved no bone (as in the pocket gopher) but relaxed the pelvic ligaments and widened the pelvic canal, thus making birth easier. Hisaw found that even virgin female animals were relaxed by relaxin...