Word: childbirth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When such simple remedies as aspirin fail, the standard treatment has been shots of ergotamine tartrate (Gynergen). But Gynergen, derived from ergot, a drug used to stimulate uterine contractions in childbirth, is almost a disease in itself. It slows the pulse, raises blood pressure, occasionally causes gangrene, may cause vomiting, pains in the legs, uterine cramps and suppression of menses...
Burgess Meredith does all the talking in "Forgotten Village," but the camera is the hero. It shies at nothing, going even farther than the Russians' recent "Rainbow" in showing the agony of a woman in primitive childbirth. Generally when Hollywood runs down to Mexico to make a movie, it leaves out all the flies and filth; "Forgotten Village" is full of both...
...injections and pills are not needed by healthy people. Extra vitamin K is needed when disease cuts off bile flow and impairs intestinal absorption. It is also given to women a few days before childbirth and to newborn babies...
...College of Psychiatry and Golden State University of Los Angeles-was curly-haired, thoughtful-looking, 24-year-old, self-styled "Vice Dean" George William Manus. His sideburns and the drape of his chalk-stripe suit were sharp. So were his departments: practical and applied psychology, chemical psychotherapy, hypnotic childbirth, advanced esoterics and metaphysics, and reflex therapy (dandy for baldness). Students of "prenatal suggestion" were advised: "When a couple decides to have children, they should go to a mountain resort where they can romp in the grass and eat green vegetables." The college claimed 4,000 alumni...
Continuous caudal anesthesia for childbirth (TIME, June 12, 1943) is potentially so hazardous that only an expert in a hospital can use it, and he must be on hand every minute to see that all goes well. This has prevented its use by: 1) busy doctors, 2) country doctors, 3) doctors who have not had a chance to study the method. Last week University of California doctors were well beyond their 100th delivery with a new, simpler kind of childbirth anesthesia which may turn out to be readily usable by any obstetrician. It is billed as "safe, simple and without...