Word: basal
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Writing in Fertility in Marriage (Farrar, Straus; $3), Dr. Louis Portnoy of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital put his faith in the basal temperature curve, which drops lower each month at about the time an ovum (egg) is released by the ovary, then rises sharply again, thus marking the most favorable time for conception. This is nonsense, snaps Dr. Edmond J. Farris-no M.D., but an anatomist (Ph.D.) who has trodden on many a medical toe with his hobnailed views...
...basal temperature chart, Dr. Farris concedes, in his Human Fertility and Problems of the Male (The Author's Press, White Plains, $5), has some value in determining the most likely time for conception. But he insists that it is often inaccurate, that its use may hinder, rather than help, conception. The most accurate way to find out when an egg is about to be released, says Dr. Farris, is to use a test he developed as head of Philadelphia's Wistar Institute of Anatomy & Biology...
...will start building an office of their own to replace their present rented quarters (which replaced a wooden shack where Dr. Reeves had to practice at first). It will be big enough to serve as an outpatient clinic. In it will be still more modern equipment, notably diathermy and basal metabolism machines. ("With those," says Dr. Reeves, "we'll have all the essentials.") Finally, there will be facilities for a skilled laboratory technician to make the countless tests demanded by modern diagnostic methods...