Word: womens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trasteverini think the separation is fine. They like their dizzy labyrinth of alleyways, the Queen of Heaven jail and the little shop where the baker's daughter and the artist Raphael lived and lusted 400 years ago. They also delight in the dark, heavy-bosomed beauty of their women, the deftly handled stiletto and heroic quantities of dry, amber Frascati...
Recent publicity about cancer, the two doctors declare, "seems to focus on a lump in the breast." Five years ago Saltzstein and Pollack got only the more serious cases, so that they performed as many operations for cancer as for "benign" (nonmalignant) tumors. Nowadays, women with less serious ailments rush in for consultation, and the doctors are performing twice as many operations for benign tumors as for cancer. And almost half the women who rush in, the doctors find, need no surgery...
...Guatemala, the women of all classes know an ancient secret learned from the Indians: an herbal tea made from ixbut (rhymes with fish-boot) increases the flow of mother's milk...
Serrano made controlled experiments on 1,800 women who had trouble nursing: 50% could not nurse at all without ixbut, but did well with it; 35% who could nurse only a little showed marked improvement with ixbut. The 15% who got no benefit were mostly nervous types. But Serrano found the same proportion of failures among goats which, he insists, were not nervous. Animals also give the lie to scoffers who say that the effect of ixbut is psychosomatic. Dairymen report that ixbut doubles the milk production of their cows...
...Hawley Harvey Crippen, a London dentist, was hanged (1910) for poisoning his wife, chopping up her remains and burying them in his cellar. Henri Desire (Bluebeard) Landru was guillotined (1922) in Versailles, France, for butchering ten women...