Word: pregnantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...author announces his story as that of "a number of attempts to achieve liberty." The central character's life, Huxley says, shows "how easy it is for a man, by nature gentle, sensitive and without consuming passions, to be betrayed by weakness and evasion into disgraceful acts pregnant with the worst consequences." Eye-fass in Gaza is written in a choppy, experimental fashion which seems designed to take some of the curse of banality off this sober theme. It is divided into 54 episodes, each episode dated, but the dates related in an emotional rather than chronological pattern. Thus...
...mothers' own homes and in their own beds. Most of the confinements will be attended by some 100,000 "family" physicians few of whom saw more than twelve deliveries while at medical school. These all-round doctors learned practical obstetrics mostly by watching Nature take its course with pregnant women. To them childbirth is a welcome commonplace which provides income of $50 to $150 per case. To the average U. S. family it is an economic and emotional problem which occurs two or three times in a life span. To every nubile woman it still evokes the Lord...
...oldest Egyptian mummy known is a pregnant woman. After her gravid body was dried and bandaged, 4,600 years ago, her husband encased her in a tomb which was opened only last month. Ancient doctors used forceps (which killed the baby) and performed Caesarean sections (which killed the mother) in cases of difficult delivery. Hindus today often put a brazier of hot charcoal under the maternity bed to assist Nature. More primitive obstetricians help by jumping up & down on the pregnant woman's abdomen...
...protect them from infection, 2,881 babies were born last year. Of them only 62 babies died. Death came to only 15 mothers at Lying-in. No other busy maternity hospital on earth can meet that record for low mortality. Dr. DeLee holds his death rate down by compelling pregnant women who 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...
Those nine historically pregnant volumes went with Dr. Gushing to Yale when in 1932 he became too old for Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. From his diaries he carefully culled enough memories to make a popular volume which he called From a Surgeon's Journal and published last week.- However useful historians may eventually find Dr. Cushing's complete diaries, they will find From a Surgeon's Journal poor history, for it reveals too little about that medically significant author's own activities. One unconnected series of jottings, however, is interesting to historian, layman...