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Such human embryos can only be studied after surgery (removal of the uterus and Fallopian tubes) which happens to take place shortly after conception. Ten years ago, Dr. Hertig had to be content with eleven-day-old embryos; gradually he has found younger & younger specimens until now the time at which the human embryo descends from the Fallopian tube to the uterus, long a mystery, can almost be fixed...
...hour embryo was a double-cell group (the fertilized ovum having just begun to divide) and was found in the Fallopian tube. In other cases, embryos four to four-and-a-half days old were found in the uterus. Presumably the youngest human yet observed would have descended to the uterus within...
Once the embryo has entered the uterus (see above), it is still nine months before anyone knows for sure what sex it will be. Doctors have not had much luck at predicting; tossing a coin has proved as good a test as any ("Heads it's a boy; tails it's a girl"). At the gynecological congress, Belgium's Dr. Pierre A. Rosa told of a surefire test discovered by accident during some research on the placenta...
...such illnesses result from the doctor's failure to recognize or treat the emotional factors in the case. The doctor may be too busy looking for possible physical and mechanical causes: "Not infrequently some innocent anomaly ... is falsely honored and burned at the diagnostic stake. Lo, the tipped uterus, the flat foot, the infected tooth, the evil adhesion...
...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...