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...explored their mysteries. Virtually all these pioneers were males, so in any technical account of a woman's intimate life there are many more men than she suspects. The most notable, numbering 101, are the heroes of Obstetric and Gynecologic Milestones (Macmillan; $15), by Obstetrician-Gynecologist Harold Speert of Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center...
Like Magellan. Dr. Speert, 43, subtitles his book Essays in Eponymy, and stoutly defends the oft-criticized practice of naming matters medical for their discoverers. These men are as much entitled to be so commemorated, he suggests, as pioneers in other spheres whose eponyms are undisputed-the Strait of Magellan, Mount Everest, Halley's comet. But his book is for fellow specialists, and he does not advocate that laymen learn the jargon of the clinical conference...
Oddly, the two most familiar of Dr. Speert's great names are among the earliest and latest: Gabriele Falloppio (circa 1523-62), who vividly described the oviduct as uteri tuba, or trumpet of the uterus, and George Nicholas Papanicolaou, 75, whose technique for detecting early cancer by smearing vaginal secretions on glass slides for microscopic study of cells has become, since 1943, standard procedure in thousands of doctors' offices...
...method of closing openings (the result of childbirth injury) between the bladder and vagina-then one of the most distressing complaints that woman was heir to. Dr. Sims is honored with a statue in Manhattan's Central Park, but the slaves are not even named in Dr. Speert's index...
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