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Both male & female babies slough off many different types of cells into the amnion ("bag of waters") in which they are carried. After the seventh month, a girl baby sloughs off distinctive cells like those from the genitalia of an adult woman. By puncturing the bag of waters late in pregnancy, draining off a little fluid, and staining the cells, the sex of 25 babies was foretold with accuracy at the University of Brussels' Laboratory for Experimental Gynecology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Got a Nickel? | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

...eyes wide open in a sticky skein of cobwebs, and Anger was a spiky, comic-book monster which had just smashed a blood-spattered plate-glass window. Lust, the shock of the group-as well as the bottom in bad taste-was a leering, loathsome human figure, festooned with genitalia and en-ries cased in a prophylactic tube...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sin in Frames | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...skin was tightly stretched and assumed a peculiar bluish transparency. . . . Fissures appeared [which] were readily infected. . . . Farther up the leg, the edema distends the skin; and over the lower leg especially, this has often a high glaze. The whole limb up to the groin was often [swollen]. The external genitalia were early affected by the edema...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bodies Need Food | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

Usually spirochetes lodge in the body tissues, especially those of eyes, mouth, genitalia, larger blood vessels, nervous system. After the second year, the danger of transmitting the disease to others is slight, decreases as the years pass. After the fifth year, said Dr. Moore, germs do not usually circulate in the blood stream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Moore on Syphilis | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

...ectomorphic component involves fragility and delicacy of body, spindly bones, stringy muscles, dropped shoulders, prominent ribs, long, thin, forward-bent neck, small face, sharp nose, thin, dry, sensitive skin, fine, quick-growing hair, prominent genitalia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Judging Mind By Body | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

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