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...into cancer. Most uterine cancer occurs in women who have borne five or six children. The use of irritating antiseptics in the vagina, and excessive activity of ovarian hormones, may also stimulate cancerous growths. Often uterine cancer develops with amazing rapidity, within a few months after labor. Only periodic pelvic examinations will reveal such early cancers...
Purpose of the grant: to start 1,200 healthy women volunteers on a five-year course of free, thorough, semiannual pelvic examinations, to detect any signs of early cancer of the uterus...
Happy at having saved three lives, Dr. Macfarlane predicted that, if all women over 30 would follow the example of the 1,200 volunteers and demand complete periodic pelvic examinations, the "appalling death rate" (15,000) from cancer of the uterus would be greatly lowered...
...child was eight months old, said Mrs. Medina, she showed signs of sexual maturity, began to menstruate. But skeptical Lima doctors took pictures of Lina's teeth and bones, concluded that she was nearer six than five, for her milk teeth had begun to fall out. Her pelvic bones, although small, were adult in shape, and she was, said Dr. Hipólito Larrabure of Lima enthusiastically, "a miniature woman." He cordially invited "some U. S. foundation to send an investigator to Lima" to observe the youngest mother in the world...
...Behanan says he first practiced posterior stretching. Sitting with his legs stretched out he hooked his forefingers over his big toes and touched his knees with his head. This "brings a rich supply of blood to the pelvic organs and tones up the nerves arising from the lower part of the spine...