Word: pregnantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Seventeen young women suffered from severe acne associated with menstrual disorders. After injections of pregnant-mare serum (a blood extract rich in pituitary hormone), all but three of them developed clear skins, normal menses. Doctors are leary of sex-hormone treatment for acne-it has been "disappointing" in the past -but Drs. Charles Howard Birnberg and Charles Robert Rein of New York City believe that pregnant mare's serum is effective for this type of acne in women. They make no mention of men with acne...
...discuss the same things-visas, exit permits, transit permits, ship sailings. They are harrowed by terrible doubts: should a family leave its ailing grandmother to die alone, or should they sit by her side until death-and then find the visas have expired? "Would it be better for a pregnant woman not to mention the fact [to the consul]? Would it be better to conceal the seriousness of an illness or to exaggerate it? Was it wise to admit that the German commission might demand extradition if there was any further delay...
...pocket gopher: the animal, for turning around in its narrow burrow, has a very narrow pelvis, and its compressed pubic bones come together in a bridge (called the symphysis), which leaves an opening much too small for the female to deliver her young. But when a female becomes pregnant, the symphysis somehow dissolves, the opening widens...
When Dr. Hisaw published these findings under the title, "The Influence of the Ovary on the Resorption of the Pubic Bones of the Pocket Gopher," nobody paid much attention. But endocrinologists began to get interested when Dr. Hisaw and fellow researchers found the relaxing substance in the blood of pregnant guinea pigs, rabbits, sows, dogs, cats, mares, women. In non-burrowing animals, relaxin dissolved no bone (as in the pocket gopher) but relaxed the pelvic ligaments and widened the pelvic canal, thus making birth easier. Hisaw found that even virgin female animals were relaxed by relaxin...
...father urging him to become a doctor and his mother after him to join the church, their love affair has grown into a deeper companionship. He also likes to talk to her. Strange Fruit begins (and reaches its most moving passages) with Nonnie's discovery that she is pregnant and that she wants to bear Tracy's child. Miss Smith handles well the scenes in the Anderson household, their pride in Nonnie as the most promising member of their educated family, their affectionate concern for her and their stupefied distress at the ghastly events that begin when Tracy...