Word: uterus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Diamond and his colleagues had long wondered why so many mixed-blood babies are ever born alive. "Theoretically, most of them should have been destroyed in the uterus, but this rarely happened. There must be something in the mother's blood," he reasoned, "which protected her baby until it was born...
...were resolved when they went to Castel Gandolfo. There, Pope Pius XII gave the church's approval to Bacala's views. Obtaining semen by unnatural means was wrong, said the Pontiff, even for married couples. But medical aid to get the semen from the vagina into the uterus, after normal intercourse, was permissible...
Because the nonmalignant fibroid, or fibromyoma, of the uterus is by far the commonest tumor among women, says Dr. Frank, "the health, happiness and future morale of many a patient will rest on the tact, insight and kindliness with which the attending physician . . . enlightens her about [its] presence ... An incautious 'You have large fibroids . . . which must come out at once' may produce panic and ... in due time she will find an operator willing to mutilate her without valid indications." In the same issue of the Journal...
...Yonkers Professional Hospital, Dr. Maraventano and his assistants went to work, in an operation lasting three hours. The operation revealed a true testicle in the left side of the groin. In the pelvis, there were an undifferentiated "boggy mass" and suggestions of vestigial Fallopian tubes, but no true uterus and no ovarian tissue. By plastic surgery...
...British obstetrician reasoned it out, childbirth is a natural process, and should not be painful. He decided that the pain that does come with normal birth is caused by fear. Fear causes tension, he explained, and tension causes the muscles of the uterus to work against one another, which causes pain...