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...exposed the child's beating heart. Then, for three hours he worked at an operation no one had ever done before. The 15-month-old child on the operating table was a "blue baby" and was expected to die. Dr. Blalock believed that he and Dr. Helen Taussig, of the children's hospital at the Hopkins, had figured out how to save blue babies...
...Bridgetown Conference men met, talked and planned who had never seen one another before, though most of them lived in the same small region. Spark plug of the Conference, and chief U.S. delegate, was public-spirited Charles Taussig, a molasses importer and economist who has labored hard & well with the Commission. British and U.S. indifference, local antipathies must be overcome before any plans can be translated into action. But the planners were excited and hopeful. They were sketching a pattern for postwar cooperation among colonial powers...
...TIME had leafed a few more pages in the late great Dr. Frederick J. Taussig's standard text on abortion . it would have found this statement: "Of all the measures suggested for the control of abortion none equals in importance the widespread establishment of clinics for contraceptive advice and provision for the free distribution of contraceptive materials among the poor. . . . By the prevention of the undesired or undesirable pregnancy we can reduce the number of cases requiring abortion to a relatively small number...
...Fredrick Joseph Taussig estimated there were 681,600 U.S. abortions yearly, killing 8,000 mothers and making many more ill or sterile. A.M. A. Journal Editor Morris Fishbein estimates there has been a 20 to 40% increase since Pearl Harbor - perhaps 1,000,000 cases a (year. In a year, less than...
Married. Navy Lieut. Joseph Knefler Taussig Jr., 23, Annapolis '41, holder of the Navy Cross (for Pearl Harbor valor), only son of outspoken Vice Admiral Taussig; and Betty Bostwick Carney, 23, daughter of Rear Admiral Robert Bostwick Carney; in Washington...