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...reported to have cried in the womb, but until relatively modern times doctors and midwives often thought it best not to publicize the fact lest they be accused of witchcraft. Last week in Britain's Lancet, a doctor described a latter-day occurrence of the phenomenon, known as vagitus uterinus (from the Latin vagire, to squall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pre-Birth Cry | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

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