Word: pregnantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Modern psychiatrists would say that the apparition at Cirencester was a hallucination-a sense image created in the mind without external stimulus. Hallucinations are not the same as delusions, which are imaginary conditions or past events. Common delusions among psychotics are that their food is poisoned, that they are pregnant, that they are hundreds of years old or only a few months old, that they can converse with people miles away, that they are dead. Generally speaking, hallucinations are prominent in schizophrenia, delusions in paranoia. A paranoiac may imagine that he is being pursued by 500 enemies in a fleet...
...faithful Catholic who had borne five children, believed that her child-bearing days were over: her youngest was 17, she herself was nearing 50. Three and a half months after her first visit, Dr. Klein discovered that in addition to suffering from a tumor, his patient was several months pregnant. A month later, Mrs. Stemmer gave birth to a premature (three months) baby boy, weighing a little over a pound. The child was a hopeless idiot, deaf and blind...
...first of its kind :ver tried in the U. S. Dr. Klein is going to appeal. Many are the implications of .he principle that a child can sue for injuries suffered while in the womb. For instance: a child might be able to sue his mother for negligence while pregnant...
...family, and his doctor son Alvin Julius, in a narrow six-room house, cluttered with books and papers. From his house Dr. Carlson can see five grey squirrels who frisk in the back yard and even that stimulates his scientific mind. Last spring in Science he noted that a pregnant squirrel dug up old bones, gnawed them constantly. He suggested that someone experiment with squirrels' craving for bones and their physical need for calcium and phosphorus during pregnancy...
...excess births a year), the Government announced that the war had caused such a birth deficit that it was necessary to subsidize births. Therefore the Government offered to lend $10 to $100 to young couples who get married, promised to cancel interest on the loan if the bride became pregnant within six months, and to cancel 20% of the principal for each child born of the marriage...