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...relationship in the growing processes, than they discovered a sterol-like substance in coal tar which causes certain kinds of cancer. Cancer is a form of growth, but unregulated. The cancerogenic coal tar "sterol" causes the same sex changes in rats as does the hormone theelin. The breasts and uterus are common sites of cancer, and many an investigator has suspected a sex hormone as a possible cause. Knowledge of growth, hormones and vitamins are becoming interlaced to the biochemist's delight. He is confident that from them he can weave a strong rope and climb to understanding...
...topic of cancer, Sir Lenthal last week observed that life habits seem to be factors in causing certain types of cancer. The frequency of cancer in women is practically the same in Japan, England, Switzerland and Holland. England and Switzerland show large percentages of cancer of the breast and uterus, considerably more of both kinds than has The Netherlands. In Japan there is a great deal of uterine cancer, very little mammary cancer...
...woman's uterus begins contracting three months before she is born. It ceases to pulsate only when her ability to bear children ceases. During that long period she becomes aware of her internal throbbing only when she is quick with child. The sensation becomes uncomfortable only as the woman's term nears its end. The end of pregnancy is, for the average woman with her first child, 18 hours of painful ordeal-16 hours during which her child struggles from its nest, 1 hour 45 minutes while it wriggles into independent existence, and 15 minutes while...
...page statement he detailed the operation he had performed on Miss Wyckoff, setting at rest the supposition that the abortion had been attempted by osteopathic manipulation. He said he had not believed Miss Wyckoff was pregnant. Nevertheless, he had performed a curettage (scraping of the walls of the uterus). Fifty-year-old Osteopath Eisiminger remained in jail...
...more strict, requires that a doctor, before performing an abortion, obtain the agreement of one colleague that it is necessary. Pregnancy can be arrested by a number of means, all more or less uncertain, more or less hazardous. Commonest is the taking of drugs to cause contraction of the uterus, expulsion of the fetus. The danger of this method is that enough of a drug to cause an abortion is almost invariably harmful. Abortion may also be brought about by the insertion of an instrument. A danger of this is that the placenta may not be expelled, that its retention...