Word: afterbirth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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LONDON--There are large poster scattered through London, proclaiming that "We Work or Want," and calling for yet another example of the old "British Grit." Americans, seeing them, and already impressed with the tired fight of the British people against war's nasty afterbirth, accept them as one more indication of the austere and lean life in 1947 England. But an interesting reaction seems to be setting in among the British themselves. "England is not so badly off" is a common answer to sympathetic questions about conditions, and there seems to be a new resentment of American pity...
Fifi had given normal birth to one kitten, then continued in labor without further result. Petersen probed her pelvic region, noted that no more kittens were on the way, attempted to stimulate labor with Pituitrin. When the drug failed to act, he operated, found that the afterbirth had become wrapped around the body of a second kitten, killing it and blocking further delivery. A third kitten, delivered more dead than alive through the incision, was revived by artificial respiration...