Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lived to write the famed Dred Scott decision (1857) which voided the Missouri Compromise, denied Congress the right to abolish slavery in the territories and thus helped to advance the Civil War. Senators warned that Chief Justice Hughes might someday write a decision on an economic question as pregnant with awful consequences as was the Dred Scott decision...
...special name the female sex hormone. The hormone is carried by the blood throughout the body. It is essential to a woman's health. It gives women their feminine characteristics. Its lack or scant production causes physiological irregularity, often sterility. Women create more of it while they are pregnant than at other times. It becomes available in relatively large quantities in the amniotic fluid and placenta...
Beside himself with vexation was Dr. Adolph Fuchs, Director of the State Hospital for the Insane at Kaufbeuren, near Munich, Germany, last week. One of his patients suffers from Pica. Pica is the depraved appetite which the mentally unbalanced, the hysteric and the pregnant often develop. Like magpies (Pica is Latin for magpie), they eat all things they encounter. Dr. Fuchs' patient, a man, has swallowed needles, nails, knife blades, spoons, a screwdriver handle, a beer seidel handle, coins, matches, all with no apparent harm. Once he drank sulphuric acid, another time lysol. He is allowed no clothes with...