Word: placentas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cause cancer; instead, the rats developed eclampsia. It was the first time the disease had been produced experimentally in animals. What Dr. Symeonidis had done was to throw the hormonal balance out of whack. Microscopic slides showed that the rats had suffered changes in liver, kidneys and placenta that human eclampsia patients suffer...
...Abdominal pregnancy results from a freakish failure of the fertilized egg to pass through a Fallopian tube to the uterus. The placenta attaches itself, like a parasite, to abdominal organs or membranes. The pregnancy is painful because the placenta irritates the tissues and the baby kicks the nerve-rich peritoneum (abdominal lining). When they discover the condition, doctors usually operate at once...
...Walter Reed Hospital, a young G.I. arrived from Guadalcanal with such a cancer. Dr. Friedman found, to his astonishment, that the soldier's sperm had become fertilized; by a kind of parthenogenesis (virgin birth), without female ova, the cancer had produced tumors resembling embryos, containing bits of placenta, lung, bone...
...remained to be proved that Dr. Hisaw had actually discovered a new hormone. He had found relatively large amounts of the relaxing substance (whose presence was proved by its effect on guinea pigs) in the corpus luteum (a yellow mass in the ovary) and in the placenta of various animals. But he had failed to determine its chemical composition. And his theory seemed to be knocked into a cocked hat when several European investigators succeeded in relaxing animals with injections of the well-known ovarian hormones, estrogen and progesterone...
...seldom surprised. One case: called to deliver a Negro woman's eleventh child, Dr. Newman found that its grandmother had already been tugging at the child for five hours with her bare hands, had broken the umbilical cord and, gory to the elbows, was digging for the placenta when he arrived. Dr. Newman gave the mother sulfanilamide, offered a grim prognosis and went home. A week later the patient walked into his office, boomed: "Doctor, please give me some medicine to keep me from breeding so fast...