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...fall, a blow, a scare, a rage, a chill, writes Dr. Taussig, may cause spontaneous abortion. Spontaneous abortions may also result from defective ova, weakness of the placenta, nervous wombs, malformed pelvis, dietary deficiencies, endocrine disturbances. Half the women who suffer from typhoid fever, cholera, scarlet fever, smallpox, erysipelas, sleeping sickness and malaria during pregnancy involuntarily abort. Pneumonia is especially feticidal...
Lead is the most common chemical poison causing abortion. Dr. Taussig found that chronic alcoholism may cause abortions, but "it is improbable that cigaret smoking even to excess can lead to" that termination of pregnancy. More boys are born alive than girls. More male fetuses are aborted than female fetuses. Some investigators believe that this preponderance of male conceptions over female conceptions is nature's way of compensating for the fact that unborn males are less sturdy than unborn females. Dr. Taussig scoffs at this theory of "genetic weakness" in males. Concerning male abortions he reasons that male fetuses...
Nonetheless a U. S. doctor is seldom prosecuted for performing a "criminal operation." He can generally claim that he did it to preserve the life or health of the woman, a legal obligation of his profession. After a search of Federal and state laws, Dr. Taussig assured doctors that their colleagues have performed therapeutic abortions without professional risk for any one of the following legitimate reasons: "1) very recent pregnancy; 2) general debility with loss of weight; 3) after suppurative appendicitis that has produced extensive adhesions; 4) after a previous Caesarean operation; 5) to prevent increasing prolapse of the pelvic...
...Taussig gives the following advice to doctors who find themselves called upon to perform therapeutic abortions: "Since the physician must in every case of abortion strive to keep his name clear of any suspicion of malpractice, it is naturally preferable for him to treat every patient with this condition in a hospital, where records are kept and the presence of nurse or interne prevents any possible efforts at blackmailing by unscrupulous persons. It is relatively easy for a man in city practice to carry this out, but in a very considerable number of cases handled in country or small town...
...great German family name in St. Louis is Taussig. Some are Gentiles, some Jews, some a mixture of both. Most eminent of the last are the doctor Brothers Taussig: Internist Albert Ernst, 64, a Unitarian; Gynecologist Frederick Joseph, 63, an Ethical Culturist. Like most male St. Louis Taussigs, both brothers went to Harvard for undergraduate education. They, and later Albert's two sons, returned to Washington University for medical training. Orphans of a wealthy Jewish banker-broker, reared by two spinster aunts, they lived well at school, got a running start in the practice of medicine...