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Word: sidmouth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three attending doctors at Victoria Cottage Hospital in Sidmouth, England assisted a young mother in a difficult labor by passing his hand into the uterus to bring down a leg. During this maneuver, reports Dr. P.M.G. Russell, the three physicians heard "a clear, remote cry very like a baby crying in the next room, but close below our heads." When a nurse returned to the room, disappointed at having missed the event, the infant obliged with another cry so loud that a doctor put his ear on the mother's abdomen to confirm beyond doubt that the cry came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pre-Birth Cry | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

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