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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...
About the use in childbirth the scientists were skeptical. They considered it difficult to understand how a relaxed uterus would aid childbirth. On the contrary, it might possibly retard delivery by lack of propelling force...