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Process of insemination is equally simple. With a syringe a gynecologist introduces a few drops of semen directly into the cervical canal, lower part of the uterus. Best time for artificial insemination is the fertile period occurring from ten days to two weeks after menstruation begins. More complicated are the legal arrangements. Both husband and wife must sign a joint agreement permitting the wife to bear the child of a third person. The identity of the donor is kept secret, and if he is married his wife must give her written consent as well. Other practical suggestions made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Proxy Fathers | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...There are 23 different places in the body where various kinds of cancers occur. Examination for cancer should include search of the skin, mouth, throat, lungs, stomach & bowels, rectum, prostate, uterus and breasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Club | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...cancer when they see them. But they have been taught - as the Women's Field Army is out to teach women - to suspect the possibilities of cancer when a sore refuses to heal; when a lump forms in any part of the body, particularly the breast; when the uterus bleeds persistently or irregularly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Army | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

...Henry found this evanescent substance, when isolated from the body, to be a colorless, odorless, crystalline powder. It causes capillaries and small arteries to dilate, thus lowering blood pressure and slowing the action of an overworking heart. It relaxes smooth muscles, thus relieving spasms of the bladder, ureters, uterus, intestines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Nobel Prizes | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

...operator, Dr. George Eliot Watts of Los Angeles, graduate of the University of Oregon Medical School in 1895. In California, Dr. Watts, 62, was noted for his competency in performing abortions, for the invention of numerous surgical appliances useful in his specialty, including a suction pump to clean the uterus after an operation and a method of quickly reducing the uterus to normal size after an abortion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Abortoria | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

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