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...doctors concluded that the mother had picked up the infection from her husband, who had a herpes simplex fever blister on his lip when he kissed her ten days before the baby was born. The virus must have reached the baby through the mother's bloodstream and the placenta...
...resort to the smokescreen term "idiopathic* respiratory distress." The difficulty probably begins in the womb. At the end of a full-term pregnancy, a woman's hormone balance changes drastically to bring on labor. By a mechanism not yet understood in detail, these same changes, transmitted through the placenta, prepare the baby for the superhuman feat of changing from an aquatic parasite, drawing oxygen from its mother's blood, to an in dependent air breather. If pregnancy is too short, these hormone triggers work weakly or not at all. The preemie delivered by caesarean has an especially urgent...
...Placenta & Plankton. FDA Commissioner George P. Larrick singled out one large area of fraud: "There is extensive, big-time quackery in the cosmetics field, generally based on the exploitation of some 'miracle' ingredient that is supposed to restore youth and beauty to the unattractive or aging skin." Sample miracle workers: "human placenta residues, plankton from the water of a certain spring in France, pig skin extract, shark oil and orchid pollen...
When babies stay in the womb too long, said Dr. Nechtow, the death rate is three times that of normal-term babies. One reason: the placenta may shrink, so the fetus is forced to live off his own tissues and loses weight. At the same time, the difficulty of delivery increases, with more frequent breech presentations, use of mid-forceps and Caesarean section. While Dr. Nechtow warned the G.P.s against resorting lightly to drastic measures, he urged them not to hesitate to induce labor or do a Caesarean section if the examination convinces them that the time is overripe...
Pursuing the search, Physiologist Williams found a substance apparently identical with the juvenile hormone in nearly every animal material from tenderloin steak to the human placenta. The richest source in any mammal seems to be the thymus gland, which is believed to control growth. Significantly, Williams found no trace of his golden oil in any vegetable...