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At the Indianapolis speedway 18 years ago, husky, young William Richards drove his racing car over the side of the track, smashed up, and was carried away with a broken pelvis. "When you're hurt and broke," Richards later related, "you naturally come home." Back he went to his...
Using guines pigs, for example, Professor Frederick L. Hisaw has discovered relaxin, a chemical now known to exist in the human body. His search started several years ago when scientists discovered, much to their chagrin, that pocket gophers were physically incapable of having children. The female pelvis was much too...
Hisaw explained the seeming inconsistency by finding that relaxin causes widening of the pelvis when a female is pregnant. He is now studying the chemistry and workings of this hormone, and is using other hormones in monkeys to reproduce artificially the conditions of pregnancy.
A month ago, at Yonkers Professional Hospital, Dr. Maraventano and his assistants went to work, in an operation lasting three hours. The operation revealed a true testicle in the left side of the groin. In the pelvis, there were an undifferentiated "boggy mass" and suggestions of vestigial Fallopian tubes, but...
Two months after he broke pelvis, collarbone, ankle and rib in an auto crash, Golfer Ben Hogan was driven to the El Paso railroad station, and wheeled to the train. He managed to walk the length of a Pullman car by himself and settled down for the 16-hour trip...