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...medical specialty is developing. Not yet officially recognized, it is embryatrics: the treatment of the baby still in the womb. Conceived little more than a year ago in Auckland, New Zealand, it is now being practiced on four continents in the hope of saving fetuses endangered by Rh incompatibility. And if its pioneers' hopes are fulfilled, embryatrics will eventually be extended to the treatment and prevention of other handicapping or fatal conditions...
Ever since the days of Hippocrates the womb has been regarded as a privileged sanctuary in which the fetus was protected against most kinds of harm. Any disturbance promised a premature birth, and doctors did not dare to attempt direct treatment of the unborn. But the more they learned about anemia from Rh incompatibility and the more certain they became of saving nine babies out of ten who are threatened by this disease, the more frustrated they became about the tenth...
Into an Artery. Dr. Liley's bold invasion of the womb failed in his first three tries because the babies had already been too severely damaged. His fourth attempt succeeded, and a live baby-now 16 months old and developing normally-was delivered. Dr. Liley has since had 13 successes in 18 cases. He is now at Manhattan's Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center on a research grant from the U.S. Public Health Service...
...difficult or dangerous than an appendectomy. It must be done in a hospital under general anesthesia. Through an abdominal incision, a gynecological surgeon cuts both Fallopian tubes and ties off the separated ends. After that there is no way for an egg to pass from the ovary to the womb...
...from bishops to informed laymen and seminarians, believe that the present vitality of Christianity is simply a kind of spiritual Indian summer. Convinced that most of the structures of the church have outlived their usefulness, many of these all-out reformers want a new Pentecost-"a return to the womb and a new birth for the Christian community," in the words of David Edwards, editor of the Anglican SCM Press...