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...that state she was carried to the University of Vienna's gynecological clinic directed by Dr. Wilhelm Weibel. To his trained eye the woman was in a state of eclampsia. Her baby had become a deadly living tumor in her womb, was poisoning her to death. A caesarean section was plainly in order. Dr. Weibel had the woman placed on an operating table and prepared. His assistant, Dr. Ernst Preissecker, loaded a sterilized portable cinema camera to photograph Dr. Weibel at work for the benefit of medical students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cinematic Caesarean | 8/5/1935 | See Source »

Amniotic fluid is a liquid which a mother secretes in her womb while she is bearing her baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Peritonitis Preventives | 10/29/1934 | See Source »

...might have another use gradually dawned on surgeons, when they realized that women who underwent caesarean sections seldom developed peritonitis. That was because amniotic fluid is a potent germicide. When an obstetrician opens the belly to lift out the child, the protective waters flood all the neighborhood of the womb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Peritonitis Preventives | 10/29/1934 | See Source »

...Church councils belongs the doctrine that Mary, who gave Virgin Birth to Jesus, was without sin from the moment of conception in her mother's womb (Immaculate Conception). Since the apocryphal account of Joachim and Hannah is obviously a reproduction of the Biblical story of Samuel's conception by Hannah (I Kings, 1-2:21), Catholic theologians concede that from a scholarly viewpoint the life and even the name of Jesus' must remain in doubt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Grandmother | 7/30/1934 | See Source »

...Montana baby was taking shape in its mother's womb. Along came a cyclone which shocked the mother and insulted the embryo. When the baby was born it was a hermaphrodite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Conception & Cyclones | 7/23/1934 | See Source »

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