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...Jerusalem's Rothschild-Hadassah University Hospital reasoned that cells in the amniotic fluid, the liquid inside the sac that encloses the fetus, could be analyzed to reveal the child's sex. To get small samples of the fluid, they inserted an extremely fine hypodermic needle through the vagina and into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Boy or Girl? | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

...intestine is not the only organ troubled by the Monilia fungus. This microorganism was first found in the throat (in cases of thrush), also occurs regularly in the vagina. Many women who take aureomycin or related antibiotics develop a stubborn inflammation of the vagina and perineal region. Sometimes the organism spreads over large areas and reaches the lungs or brain heart or kidneys. There have been cases in which a child's entire body has been covered with itchy inflammation. In treating such cases of moniliasis, still another antibiotic has been found to help undo the harm wrought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Misuse of Antibiotics | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

...delegates' differences 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctors' Dilemma | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Maraventano freed the obscured clitoris-like penis, closed up the vagina-like introitus, moved the testicle into a scrotal sac formed from the labia majora. Then he made a canal in the freed penis. After the surgery was completed, a series of treatments with testosterone, the male sex hormone, followed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Man | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...test, one electrode is placed against the abdomen, the other inserted into the vagina. If the patient has cancer in the genital tract (or is pregnant, or has certain nonmalignant tumors), the needle on the microvoltmeter dial swings to the left of the center line. If not, it swings toward the right. At Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital, cancer was detected in 74 out of 75 cases of women found by other tests to have cancer. Of 616 women shown to have no cancer by the test, only five were later found actually to have the disease. The Burr-Langman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Anti-Social Cells | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

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