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From earliest times, woman's womb and its workings have been grossly misunderstood. For centuries, the uterus was supposed to have an independent life and motility of its own. It was believed to be the cause of hysteria, which was derived from the Greek word for womb (varepo.). Even today, a "host of taboos, legends and mysteries" persist. So say two Salt Lake City psychiatrists in the current issue of GP (published by the American Academy of General Practice). According to Drs. C. H. Hardin Branch and David E. Reiser, "otherwise sophisticated and intelligent" women are extremely naive...
There were 21 distinct layers, each older than the one above it. High points were the finding of five matting-wrapped mummies, bone-dry and well preserved. They had been buried in a doubled-up position, like babies in the womb. The ancient Huastecas believed in an afterlife, and they thought that this style of burial favored a prompt rebirth...
...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...