Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yale's learned Neuro-Anatomist Harold Saxton Burr last year revealed that a complicated electrical device he and associates invented could tell when a woman's ovary had produced a full-grown ovum and thus put her in the essential preliminary state for having a baby (TIME, Nov. 23). Such foreknowledge might guide a woman's conduct in case she did not want to have a baby. Professor Burr immediately denied that his "vacuum tube microvoltmetre for the measurement of bioelectric phenomena" provided any such useful domestic data. Disappointed were many good citizens-not all of whom...
...year Dr. Burr was absolutely sure that a surge in the micropotential of rabbits and cats, as registered on the microvoltmetre, indicated ovulation simply because he could cut those creatures open and examine the state of their ovaries. But since he could not perform a major operation on a woman just to confirm the meaning of an electrical surge through her flesh, he had to wait until a lucky break provided him this year with an amiable woman who was scientifically-minded and going to have an abdominal operation anyway...
...operation until the day when previous microvoltmetre readings predicted an ovum would rupture out of a follicle of an ovary and cause a faint electrical upset. That overture to gestation occurred at 7:05 p.m. July 24 and threw the microvoltmetre out of whack for several seconds. Immediately the woman's potential slowly decreased. Said Dr. Burr last week: "The condition continued until midnight when the experiment was terminated in order that the patient might obtain a night's rest. Next morning a laparotomy was done, the ovaries examined, and in the left ovary the bright punctate hemorrhage...
...iron worker, had kept a meticulous diary of her daughter's 2,096 days in bed. The doctor in the case, Dr. Eugene Fagan Traut, a closemouthed, popular suburban doctor, counted on being asked to publish a sequel to the clinical record he has kept of the young woman's stupor (TIME, April...
...inflammation. Both conditions almost totally destroyed her ability to move her head, eyes, jaws, tongue, shoulders, hips, legs, knees. The withered frontal lobe proved most interesting to Northwestern's pathologists, for it was not directly affected by the attack of encephalitis lethargica which rendered the young woman inert. Dean Irving Samuel Cutter of Northwestern offered this explanation: "The first stages of encephalitis are sleep, paralyzing of certain cranial nerves, general weakness and acute inflammation chiefly affecting the grey matter in the midbrain region. The secondary effects are inflammation of the capillaries and lymph spaces in the brain proper, filling...