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...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...
...mind had to grapple with." Like other firstborns, he suffered the pain of having to share his mother with "intruders" (younger brothers and sisters). Author Jones has a lot of tricky unraveling to do for this tangled period, and comes out at the end with a neat ball of womb-symbols, erotic fantasies and thwarted infantile greed. Of this last, "traces . . . remained in [Freud's] later life in the form of slightly undue anxiety about catching trains." This is perhaps an understatement: Freud liked to be on the platform a good hour before the symbolic breast, pulled...
Puzzled, the researchers asked Mrs. McK. whether she was a twin. No less puzzled by their apparent second sight, Mrs. McK. replied that she had had a twin brother, who died when three months old. That explained it, they figured: in the womb there had been a connection between the arteries of the fraternal twins, and Mrs. McK. had picked up some of her brother's blood-making cells...
...15th century the church had approved the practice), did countless sketches and cross sections, working to get just the right swell of a bicep, the right organ in the right place. The Metropolitan shows a precise study by Leonardo of a baby in a womb. Raphael spent long hours dissecting; Curator Mayor shows how his later figures lose their smooth look and take on bone structure and strong, adult muscles. Not until 1543, when the Belgian Anatomist Andreas Vesalius published his book of superb anatomical drawings, did artists have a text...