Word: uterus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...William Randolph Hearst, thousands of others from all over the U.S.-he personally removed about 25,000 goiters. (Goiter removal is most frequent operation at Minnesota's Mayo and Boston's Lakey Clinics.) He devised his own operations for cancer of the lip and prolapse of the uterus, and advocated an operation on the coeliac ganglion (nickel-size nerve center above the kidneys) to bring down high blood pressure...
Sperm Meets Egg. One important contributing factor in sterility. Dr. Hamblen claims, is the fact that few people understand even the mechanics of conception. Spermatozoa (self-propelled male germs), when deposited in the female cervix (neck of the uterus), swim into the uterine cavity, then up through the pencil-sized fallopian tubes...
Near the feathery upper end of the tubes, one sperm cell may be lucky enough to merge with an ovum or egg cell which has been discharged from the nearby ovaries. After this fortunate meeting, the fertilized egg then proceeds back through the tube into the uterus, and burrows into the uterine lining: baby is on its way. This process may be prevented by a number of disorders which occur about as often in husbands as in wives. Therefore Dr. Hamblen urges that men be examined as routinely as women...
...Vincent Meigs and Maurice Fremont-Smith, for a study of vaginal smears as an an aid to the prediction of the date of ovulation and the earlier diagnosis of cancer of the uterus...
...compound normally found in the thyroid. Dr. Lefft mixed the powder with ordinary gelatine, tried it first on cats and dogs. Later he and Dr. MacLean used it on 44 patients with excellent results. The new substance, said Dr. Lefft, can also be used for X-rays of lungs, uterus, other abdominal organs...