Word: weibel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Weibel swiftly drew a vertical slash down the taut, iodine-painted belly. The flesh parted. The melon like womb protruded. Dr. Preissecker's camera whirred steadily. Dr. Weibel slashed open the womb, ran his hand under the child, lifted it out of its mother. The camera whirred, clicked, fluttered, stopped. Dr. Weibel looked at Dr. Preissecker. Dr. Preissecker fumbled with the camera. The film had broken. Dr. Preissecker tried to fix it, grew confused...
...minutes Dr. Preissecker tinkered with the camera. Dr. Weibel could not help much. He was obliged to hold the baby who was still attached to the umbilical cord, which was still attached to the placenta, which was still attached to the womb of the unconscious woman on the operating table...
...baby took an untimely breath and mewled. Dr. Weibel, recollecting his proper business, hastily clamped and severed the umbilical cord, laid the baby aside until he could complete his caesarean work on the mother...
...Weibel hoped that the baby would live, for newborn infants have tremendous vigor. This baby died two hours after delivery. Gossip soon ran through Vienna to the effect that it died because Dr. Weibel had paused for two minutes during the breakdown of the cinema camera. Bureaucrats in the Austrian Ministry of Education heard the talk. The State Secretary, Dr. Pernter, called Dr. Weibei to account. He explained that in eclampsia the child poisons the mother's blood and the mother's blood in turn poisons the child. In this case, said he, "autopsy next day showed conclusively...
That statement might have ended the matter, save for ulterior gossip because of which a special Governmental com-mission last week kept Dr. Weibel on tenterhooks. The rumor: Dr. Weibel is a Nazi, and therefore a menace to the Austrian Republic. The man who was supposed to be spreading such a tale: Dr. Weibel's assistant and camera-operator, Dr. Preissecker...