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...pact to keep the peace of Europe began to stir fatefully last week in diplomacy's deep womb...
...Lake Nipissing bulged large with spring's fertility last week. The full moon with Venus, Mars and Saturn accompanying swelled pompously across the midnight sky. And in a lamplit farmhouse near Callander a buxom French-Canadian woman of 24 whimpered with the unusual fullness of her womb. She, too, had three attendants-her aunt, another goodwife who had borne 17 children, and her husband Ovila Dionne. Upstairs in bed were the two boys and three girls of the Dionnes. Four years in his grave lay their sixth child...
...night long the physicians argued with her, pointing out that Indian girls of Juanita's generation no longer live the hardworking, outdoor lives of their grandmothers which made for small babies, easy deliveries. Just after dawn Grandmother Annie gave in. The physicians promptly sliced open Juanita's womb, delivered her of a healthy 9 ½lb. boy. Physicians thought that Juanita was probably the youngest woman ever to undergo a caesarean section. But they could not claim that she was the youngest woman ever to become a mother. Woman's capacity to bear children begins at puberty...
...Buffalo a "healthy and perfectly normal baby" girl was cut from her mother's womb 30 minutes after the mother, a Mrs. Anthony di Pasquale, had died of childbirth convulsions...
...Franklin H. Martin, an organizer of the College* have been keeping track of cases of cancer which have remained cured for five years or longer. Last week the surgeons reported a total of 24,448 five-year cures. Of the total 7,990 have been cancer of the womb, 8,051 cancer of the breast, 1,506 cancer of the mouth and lip, 1,124 cancer of the skin, 2,067 cancer of the colon and rectum. The knife, x-ray and radium effected these cures because the patients reported and their physicians recognized the cancers before much destruction...