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With such thoughts to soothe fallen arches, pelvic pains, aching hearts, worried minds, the 10,000 nurses, a collection of tidy women in printed dresses and floppy hats, scattered to conferences and lectures to face the hard, professional problems which the American Nurses' Association (120,000 members), National League of Nursing Education (4,100 members) and National Organization for Public Health Nursing (7,500 members) are trying to solve...
...have any infection to have their babies in a building widely separated from his regular maternity rooms. He also avoids maternal deaths by forbidding "meddlesome midwifery." He always waits for the baby to be born through the mother's own efforts unless some accident of parturition or pelvic malformation compels him to use drugs or forceps...
...colleagues have performed therapeutic abortions without professional risk for any one of the following legitimate reasons: "1) very recent pregnancy; 2) general debility with loss of weight; 3) after suppurative appendicitis that has produced extensive adhesions; 4) after a previous Caesarean operation; 5) to prevent increasing prolapse of the pelvic organs; 6) after plastic repair of the pelvic eugenic floor to reasons such prevent as a birth of recurrence; 7) eugenic reasons such as birth of a defective child or parental feeblemindedness; 8) suicidal tendencies; 9) economic reasons in women of high fertility; 10) previous postpartum infection; 11) co existing...
...under 18. He has them watch their diet and bowels, wash their faces well, on the expectation that most of them will outgrow their acne naturally. On acne patients between 18 and 22 years of age, he uses x-rays. In older patients he first makes a search for pelvic and gastrointestinal diseases. If he finds and cures such conditions, the acne usually disappears. If not, he resorts to x-rays; and with women, if nothing else works, to female sex hormones...
...shallow hip socket have been weakened. Injury or infantile paralysis will do this. Dr. Marion Beckett Howorth of Manhattan invented a way of overcoming the slipping of the joint. He cuts through the flesh at the hip, lays bare the joint. Then he carefully breaks the part of the pelvic bone which forms the upper edge of the hip socket. The loosened piece of bone he bends down and wedges securely with bone grafts. After healing, the downturned chunk of pelvis acts like a claw to hold the hip bone within its socket. The new grip is just tight enough...