Word: rotstein
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Dr. Morris L. Rotstein of Baltimore's Sinai Hospital stated in the Journal of the A.M.A. that he now lets healthy new mothers get up on the third or fourth day after delivery, sends them home on the sixth to eighth day, thus relieving ward crowding. (The usual prewar stay was ten or twelve days.) "In this series of 150, no ill effects were noted. The patients . . . were able to take care of both themselves and some of the inbed patients. . . . When allowed to go home . . . they felt strong...
Many other doctors, convinced that civilized woman, like many highly bred animals, is usually physiologically knocked out by the birth process, disagree with Dr. Rotstein. Said a Manhattan obstetrician: "A [new] mother . . . needs a complete physical rest [and] her nervous system must rest also. . . . Unless [the muscular supports] are given full opportunity to resume their normal position, inestimable harm may be done." To relieve Manhattan ward crowding, many cases are sent home early, but are advised to stay in bed a total of two weeks...
Because of these pitfalls, many anesthetists have been reluctant to take up the method. In the Journal of the A.M.A. last week, Drs. Nathan Block and Morris Rotstein told how some of the dangers may be avoided...
...Corner." Sylvia Asprey, 12, showed Hitler on a clothesline, captioned "Save To Bring Him Down a Peg" (see cut). James Morris, 13, made a good caricature of the Reichsführer being hit on the head by a bag labeled ?, with the caption: "Make Sure You Pound Adolf." H. Rotstein, 13, used businesslike symbolism: a ?shaped snake around a swastika, captioned "It Strangles Your Enemy." Most publicized poster was 13-year-old Mary Saunders'-a woman digging in her sleeping husband's trousers, with the slogan "Dig For Victory." Ronald Sharp, 13, who filled his poster with planes...