Word: wombs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...patient had been nauseated and suffering from diarrhea. At the clinic in Pasadena, Calif. Dr. Norman L. McBride took a blood sample, and analysis showed an abnormally high count of white cells. Dr. McBride suspected an infection of the patient's womb, put her under anesthesia and opened her abdomen. Her womb was normal, but he detected bile stains and inflammation around her gall bladder. He opened the bladder, took out a gallstone, closed the bladder, flushed it with an antibiotic solution. The patient made a good recovery and went home within a week...
...social rounds. In Tunisia, where in 1947 polygamy was accepted practice, a husband landed in jail last April for having defied the law and taken a second wife. In Egypt and Lebanon, Turkey and Syria-where for centuries the life of a woman was described proverbially as "from the womb of her mother to the house of her father, from there to the house of her husband, from there to the tomb"-women shop veilless in the markets, dance in nightclubs, train as nurses, drive cars unescorted, even vote. In the last ten years, Islam's women have achieved...
...quieter moments, Sal and Dean think that no one will ever really have IT except when he dies or, as not a few people have said elsewhere, returns to the womb. But whenever there are any quiet moments that show promise of lasting, worn-out Sal either goes to sleep or back to school, depending on whether the book has come to the end of a chapter or one of its five sections. As a result, there is little thinking about such ideas or about anything else. Nor are there any lasting reactions to scenes of potential beauty, be they...
Laugh if you will, call it going back to the womb--Vag was born in Cambridge--but the fact is that Vag depended on it. He had lived in the vicinity of Cambridge and Boston ever since he could remember and had never thought very seriously of leaving...
First case so reported was that of a Mrs. McK., whose red cells were 60% type O and 40% type A (TIME, July 20, 1953). It seemed clear that she had derived them in the womb from a twin brother, but medical detectives could get only circumstantial evidence because the brother died in infancy. Now, in the British Medical Journal, research teams report two cases with both twins alive...