Word: womb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dead who reached that age, 41 (23.6%) developed cancers of one sort or another. One noteworthy fact about this ill-fated family is that 20 of the men, six of the women died of cancer of the stomach or of the bowels. Fifteen women died of cancer of the womb...
...term mole refers to two separate kinds of growths in the body: 1) a soft, fleshy mass (Latin mola) in the womb, caused by an ovum which started to become a baby but failed; 2) a pigmented spot (Anglo-Saxon mael) in the skin. According to Dr. Affleck, Mole No. 2 "may occur anywhere on the surface of the body, in the mucous membranes of the upper and lower ends of the digestive tube, and in the eye." It may be covered with coarse hairs. In color it ranges from light brown to black. Color is due to a pigment...
...less than a century ago all good doctors believed that female hysterics were directly caused by a violent disturbance of the womb or hystera. This belief was an outgrowth of an ancient notion that the womb was a free-moving organ-"like an animal within an animal"-which at times roamed the body and tickled a woman to immoderate and uncontrollable laughter. This theory died only when it was clinically established that men could have hysterics no less than women. Best modern thought is that sex tension is only one of many causes of hysterics...
...Teresa Hawkins caused her hysteria. He well knew that a lesion in the brain or a lesion in the abdomen could produce the same kind of false laughter. Upon examining Teresa Hawkins, Dr. Offner found that an appendectomy had resulted in abdominal adhesions. These affected both her diaphragm and womb, put a strain upon her constitution which she withstood until her shorthand studies exhausted her. Then she lost all emotional control. Soon as Dr. Offner performed a second laparotomy and freed diaphragm and womb from their unnatural bindings, Teresa Hawkins ceased her nine days laughing...
...southwestern Texas for a fortnight little furry cotton seeds have been lying in the womb of Mother Earth sucking up winter rain, beginning to unfold inside, thrusting out little white roots, pushing up diminutive stalks. Day by day and mile by mile to the east and north other furry cotton seeds are being stuck into the ground for the same purpose. In a few weeks the cotton planting season will be over. For that reason the U. S. Senate last week curbed its 96 tongues, limiting each to 15 minutes exercise until a new farm bill should be passed. Passed...