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...longer considered smart talk at the bridge table to discuss twilight sleep or painless labor," the doctors* say in Psychosomatic Medicine. "The woman of the day is one who can vividly describe every last detail of her delivery, including the ecstasy of the unassisted expulsion of the placenta...
...arthritis sufferers, there was brighter news last week in Milwaukee, 80 miles farther north. There at a staff meeting at St. Mary's Hospital, Drs. Millard Tufts, S.B. Pessin and Tiber Greenwalt announced a new antiarthritic serum that can be extracted at any hospital from discarded afterbirths, i.e., placenta and umbilical cords...
...even proved effective in treating the disease (TIME, Nov. 27). Rather than take blood from new mothers, Dr. Tufts decided to try something else. The same factor that prevents arthritis in pregnant women and infants (who never have arthritis), he reasoned, must lie in the blood of the placenta, gallons of which are thrown away every day in any obstetrical center...
...company with his colleagues, Dr. Tufts refined from placenta blood some serum which he called PBS, and injected 20 cc. into the arm of a patient who had suffered from severe rheumatoid arthritis for more than ten years. After three injections she reported, "My pain and swelling began to disappear and I could notice the lump on my wrist start to go down . . . It's wonderful...
...predicting; tossing a coin has proved as good a test as any ("Heads it's a boy; tails it's a girl"). At the gynecological congress, Belgium's Dr. Pierre A. Rosa told of a surefire test discovered by accident during some research on the placenta...