Word: uteri
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before the old Pure Food & Drugs Act was passed in 1906, the label on Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound proclaimed the tonic "A Sure Cure for Prolapsus Uteri or Falling of the Womb, and . . . All Weaknesses of the Generative Organs of Either Sex." Since 1906 the label has been modified several times to sidestep run-ins with Federal authorities...
...gave the new composition which does all that cocaine or procaine together with epinephrine does. Chemically epicaine is alpha (3, 4-dihydroxyphenyl) beta (paraaminobenzoylbetadiethylaminoethanol) al-phaethanonehydrochloride. Dr. Osborne proved this strange substance's efficacy on the "frog's sciatic plexus . . . the cat's blood pressure, the uteri of the guinea pig and cat, the gut of the cat, rabbit and monkey, the excised frog's eye and the Pupil in the intact...
...amniotic fluid is collected at the slaughter house from heavy western beef after government inspection of each animal. The uteri of cows two to five months pregnant, only, are selected. At this early period the amniotic fluid is especially pure and potent. The product is further purified and concentrated by an elaborate chemical process in one of the country's leading pharmaceutical houses. The end product, highly purified, is now used to prevent peritonitis in all cases of abdominal surgery...
...Hiltons also cited the case of Rosa-&-Josepha Blazek, who were joined back to back, had one vagina, one rectum, but two uteri. Rosa bore a son whom both nursed. Later the pair were reported to have married one man. The 1918 epidemic of influenza killed them, aged 40, while in Chicago...