Word: womb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact that 85% of the boy babies born in U.S. private hospitals nowadays are circumcised, regardless of the parents' religious beliefs, may be an important factor in reducing cancer of the uterine cervix (neck of the womb) in years to come. Dr. Ernest L. Wynder. of Manhattan's Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases,* has reached this comforting conclusion after studying the striking differences in the incidence of cervical cancer among women with different marital histories...
...sound of her own voice falling like a cleaver on her tremble-chinned daughter (Elizabeth Ross), who peeps in terror from a vine-enclosed summerhouse across the garden. Even marriage to a Saroyanesque young man (Logan Ramsey) fails to save the daughter, for she feverishly builds a homey womb away from home in a trellised corner booth of her husband's bar. The play's uncertain note of affirmation is sounded when Elizabeth finally flees to St. Louis with her husband, rejecting her mother's hysterical offer of a newer, better and even more insulated garden house...
Obstetricians do not know just how rare these cases are, but they estimate the frequency as less (perhaps much less) than one in a million. The great majority of malformed infants die in the womb; others are fatally injured during delivery. And even when, rarely, they are born alive, the life hangs by a thread, and most doctors will not take heroic measures to preserve such a life when success can only prolong misery. Soviet physicians report that a double baby girl, similar to the Hartley case, survived for 13 months (in 1937-38); few survive even as long...
...help physicians diagnose their patients' complaints from shadows showing calcification. One particularly clear example: spotting a case of diabetes from chalky deposits in the sperm duct. Only once did Dr. Christensen defer to the possible presence of laymen in the audience, by describing a fetus shown in the womb as "a little stranger." On the other hand, there was nothing that the accidental, nonprofessional viewer could have found upsetting...
...blood disorders caused by Rh-factor differences in their parents (TIME. Nov. 28, 1949). But in 17% of these pregnancies, the doctors have had no chance to use their new-found skills because the babies were stillborn. What was needed was a technique to save their lives in the womb...