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Jane Todd Crawford, 47, mother of five, was sure that she was pregnant again. But though her body swelled, she felt no quickening within her. Something was wrong. Surgeon Ephraim McDowell diagnosed Jane Crawford's trouble: no pregnancy, but a tumor. Only surgery might save her. McDowell had never...
"Having placed her on a table of the ordinary height, on her back, and removed all her dressing which might in any way impede the operation, I made an incision . . . nine inches in length . . . extending into the cavity of the abdomen . . . The tumor then appeared full in view, but was...
A thousand old wives' tales hold that there is a close connection between a woman's illnesses during pregnancy and the health of her baby, but medical researchers were long unable to prove anything except the damaging effects of German measles in the first three months of gestation...
In medicine's continuing war against cigarettes as the principal cause of lung cancer, Surgeon General Leroy Burney of the U.S. Public Health Service was back in the ring last week, punching hard in another round. In the A.M.A. Journal, Dr. Burney reiterated that 1) all smokers have a...
Dr. Burney's article did not reach the A.M.A.'s Chicago office until Nov. 2. This was well after the Reader's Digest had hit the stands with its November issue showing (from tests by a reputable private laboratory) that several brands of filtered cigarettes, marketed since...