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Judge Feinberg's ruling established the first U.S. precedent in a curious legal problem. The first reported case of human artificial insemination occurred in England in 1790, when Dr. John Hunter, consulted by a "linen draper in the Strand" suffering from a deformity of the urethra, decided to inject the draper's wife with semen by means of a syringe. The operation produced a normal pregnancy. Since then moralists have viewed the process with increasing alarm, while visionary eugenists have hailed the prospects (e.g., the indefinite perpetuation of great men through preservation of their frozen semen for generation...
...infection, inflammation and obstruction of the prostate gland, difficulty and frequency of urination . . . angina pectoris [heart disease] and high blood pressure." Dr. Young cured his prostate trouble by using a "punch" of his own invention-a straight tube with a short, curved inner end which, when passed through the urethra (urinary canal), trapped in a small window of the instrument the bar of tissue which was damming up his bladder and cut it with an inner, sliding steel tube...
Fortunately the question remained purely academic. Lloyd George did not die. His urethra was explored by skillful Dr. John Swift Joly (author of Stone and Calculus Disease of the Urinary Organs). While King George's physician, Lord Dawson of Penn, nodded sagely over the operating table, the learned medicos removed his prostate gland. Next day David Lloyd George was sucking tea through a goose-necked tube...