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With this much consideration shown for stillborn babies what might the Harvard man expect? Jonathan Edwards gave a rough idea...
Babies and hospitals made the headlines in Manhattan. When Dr. Robert Arthur Wilson of Brooklyn reported that he got 400 stillborn babies to breathe by injecting a drug called alpha-lobeline hydrochloride into the vein of their umbilical cords while they were held upside down, fellow obstetricians pounced upon him. Objection No. 1: Dr. Wilson used a drug which the A.M.A. has not approved. His retort: "We must not let babies die just because the A.M.A. has not approved the drug." Objection No. 2: He did not first try such standard methods of stimulating breath in the newborn as blowing...
Some U. S. surgeons can graft windows into damaged eyes just as effectively as Professor V. P. Filatov of Odessa, who last week told the U. S. Press that he does. Thus Columbia Medical Center's Dr. Ramon Castroviejo has successfully grafted the cornea of a stillborn infant upon the opaque eye of a grown man (TIME, April 15, 1935). But, by publishing in plain language an exposition of his surgery, Dr. Filatov, famed scientist of the U. S. S. R., violated the mores of U. S. ophthalmologists. On the other hand ordinary U. S. doctors learned...
...Bernard was somewhat baffled. He asked the Home Office to order Scotland Yard to request by radio that police throughout the United Kingdom search all parcels which had remained more than two weeks in station check rooms. No sooner had this search begun than the remains of a stillborn baby were found at Brighton in a wicker basket which had been checked on Feb. 24. "You see it was a wicker fish basket," explained the checkroom attendant. "That was why we didn't think there was anything strange." As Sir Bernard Spilsbury's next discovery it was revealed...
...Colonel Robins," cried Comrade Litvinoff, "was the first to discern health and vitality in what other people believed to be a stillborn child...