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...minutes Dr. Preissecker tinkered with the camera. Dr. Weibel could not help much. He was obliged to hold the baby who was still attached to the umbilical cord, which was still attached to the placenta, which was still attached to the womb of the unconscious woman on the operating table...
...woman rested a while, until she regained strength to expel the placenta. Then without pausing to tie the umbilical cord, she dressed herself, wrapped baby and placenta in a sheet, went forth for medical help. Two blocks away she found an incredulous policeman in a patrol car. He thought she was fooling until he looked at the baby. Then it was only a matter of minutes until Amelia Toner and daughter were in the best of civilized hospital care, both getting along well...
...years. In the car were three tanks of oxygen and carbon dioxide to stimulate the babies' breathing in case they turned blue again. The doctor brothers talked until all hours of the morning. "It looks to me," reasoned Dr. Allan, "as though they were uniovular . . . one placenta . . . cords of different length." Dr. William: "I agree...
Check. In Cambridge. Mass, last week Dr. James B. Murphy (Rockefeller Institute) told the National Academy of Sciences how he had concentrated a mysterious substance from rapidly-growing tissue-placenta and embryo skin-of rabbits and mice, shot it into other rabbits and mice suffering from one form of cancer (carcinoma). In most cases the cancerous growth was arrested. A substance concentrated from chicken tumors checked another type of cancer (sarcoma). The inhibitors have not been tried on cancerous human beings...
...think the infants get their immunity from their mother's blood or milk. But there are arguments against that conception. A more tenable theory: the rapidly multiplying fetal and infant cells may establish a general protection called ''tissue immunity." If so, opined Drs. McKhann & Chu, the placenta (afterbirth) must contain substances which would prevent measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria and infantile paralysis in older children. With this idea they made some water extracts of after-births...