Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drugs; 2) Most doctors are ignorant of the uses and possible after-effects of childbed analgesics. Dr. Joseph Bolivar DeLee, 66, ranks as No. 1 U. S. obstetrician because he founded Chicago's great Lying-in Hospital, helped make obstetrics a learned and respected profession, demonstrated methods to prevent women from dying in childbirth...
...needed. . . . Gentlemen, this is a forceps case. Let us proceed to the amphitheatre." There a woman, asleep under ether, is ready for delivery. Dr. DeLee surveys her, murmurs, "Hm! Looks like a nine-pounder." Swiftly he nicks the woman's vulva so that it will spread and prevent the birth from tearing the perineum. Deftly he inserts the forceps, engages the baby's head, pulls with all his cleverness. The baby is born, apparently little disturbed by the greatest strain it ever will undergo the rest of its life...
...states that these antiseptics are of no value and yet one of the greatest surgeons that ever lived laid the cornerstone of modern medicine with an antiseptic solution having the same germicidal strength as the antiseptics so rashly criticized. Lord Lister was able to prevent infections with a solution of carbolic acid. . . . This doesn't make sense, and yet this is the sort of statement which is being copied in critical books and other publica-tions throughout the country. Can it be that at this late day it is found that antiseptic surgery is a failure, that Lister...
...this impasse have matters remained. The strikers, with yells of "Judas!" at the Union heads, have picketed strenuously, tried to prevent ships from sailing, offered to submit to referendum. The Union heads, with yells of "Outlaw!" at the strikers, have successfully found crews for all outbound ships, refused to put the question to a Union referendum. Last week, as both sides stood pat, Leader Curran claimed 4,500 of New York Harbor's 10,000 seamen were behind him. The Union heads put the figure...
...Paul quickly recognized young Smuts's ability, made him State Attorney at 28, though he was not legally eligible. Smuts saw that war was imminent, worked like a Dutchman to prevent it. Nevertheless it came. (According to Author Millin, neither side really wanted war which was the work of one man, Sir Alfred-later Lord-Milner, British High Commissioner.) Once it started, the Boers thought their 60,000 burghers had a good chance of winning. They had beaten the British before, at Majuba: they remembered the successful U. S. War of Independence: they expected the Cape Colony to rise...