Word: womens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than had ever appeared on a screen before. The mechanical, impersonal accuracy of lens and film was sickening. Though critics praised the picture, audiences stayed away. But for fascinated fans who saw it again last week, World War II had given the film new, terrible, urgent meanings. Pyramids of women's and children's bodies in Shanghai recalled Warsaw; mangled bodies in bombed Madrid forecast London or Paris...
Unforgettable were shots of coolies heaping into trucks corpses like flopping fish; bodies with faces blown away bobbing down muddy Soochow Creek; mangled flesh being shoveled out of shell-shattered ruins. Unforgettable were the despairing faces of old Spanish women. Most unforgettable of all: a blood-covered, four-year-old Chinese child, sitting bolt upright like a doll on a deserted railway platform, behind him the charred beams of the station...
...puerperal (childbed) fever caused by Streptococcus haemolyticus more than 3,000 U. S. women die every year. Although sulfanilamide has miraculously cured thousands of puerperal infections, physicians have long sought an equally sure preventive, for most survivors of this ravaging fever are left weakened for life, or mutilated by necessary operations...
Several years ago, with Dr. Ralph Edward Otten, Dr. Bernstine prepared a vaccine from germs found in the vaginal tract of puerperal fever victims. He tried the vaccine out on hundreds of mice, then on a large group of nonpregnant women, to make sure it was not dangerous. "Aside from an occasional complaint such as slight soreness at the site of injection, or mild malaise," said the doctors, "no untoward reactions were observed. Several women volunteered the information that they . . . felt better following the vaccinations...
Then Drs. Bernstine and Bland picked at random 228 volunteers, women attending Jefferson's pre-natal clinic. Most of them had pregnancy complications, including anemia, tuberculosis, heart disease, venereal disease. Some of these complications, noted Drs. Bernstine and Bland, are "factors predisposing, either directly or indirectly, to puerperal infection...