Word: womb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...primordial darkness extending back from birth to conception and still further back to such matters as "memory" of life on other planets (TIME, Dec. 22). Now a serious British psychiatrist, who conducts much analysis under hypnosis, seriously claims to have dredged his patients' memories back to the womb. And though Dr. Denys E. R. Kelsey's report and conclusions seem fantastic to the layman, London's reputable Journal of Mental Science prints them with a straight face. His three case histories...
...captains England's ship tonight Steer it serenely to the ports of light! And spew through peaceful commerce and aplomb More issue from Britain's yet resourceful womb...
...Diamond had discovered, when Mrs. Kupferstein went to him a couple of years ago complaining of inability to conceive, that she had double reproductive organs, including two wombs. Minor surgery helped Mrs. Kupferstein to conceive, but Dr. Diamond expected that this would occur in only one womb, which would then crowd the other and make it inoperative. To his surprise, X rays of two developing fetuses showed that conception had occurred in both at about the same time...
Hermaphroditism. After about five weeks of life in the womb, the human fetus develops a sex gland (gonad) which at first cannot be identified as male or female. Within a week or two, in normal growth, it becomes recognizable as either the female kind that will develop into ovaries, or the male kind that will become testicles. Sometimes, nature gets its wires crossed and the luckless infant develops one ovary and one testicle, or an intermediate type of "ovotestis." and some of the genital organs of both sexes. This is true hermaphroditism,* though Pediatrician Lawson Wilkins of Johns Hopkins...
Probably commoner, says Dr. Wilkins, are cases in which disease of the adrenal glands causes an excess output of the male hormones. If the trouble starts in a baby girl still in the womb, it brings on outward physical changes and makes her look like a boy. In a few years she will have a deep voice and may start to grow a beard. If the trouble comes later in childhood (perhaps as the result of an adrenal tumor), most of the changes will be superficial-flat chest, narrow hips, deep voice and hirsutism. In a boy, the effect...