I’m always surprised at the quality and impartiality of Sexology’s articles. This article discusses a lot of the consequences of abortion being illegal that are just as applicable today. It’s interesting to note that nowhere in this article does does it mention the “right to life” or abortion being murder, the focal points of todays anti-abortion movement. One issue I did have is that the author seems to assume that all illegal abortions are done by doctors as opposed to hacks and back alley shysters. Obviously this makes a big difference in the quality of care and chance of complications.
ILLEGAL ABORTION … disease of society
An international conference tackles an explosive problem involving more than 1 million women each year.
by Isadore Rubin, B.A., M.S. in Ed.
ILLEGAL abortion in the United States is a “disease of society” affecting possibly as many as 1,200,000 women a year. It presents a problem “as real and urgent as did venereal disease three decades ago.”
These major conclusions were offered by thirty-eight of the nation’s foremost experts after an international conference on abortion, sponsored by the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. The conference report has been published recently in book form.
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Your Shoulder Blades Tell How Old You’ll Be
DR. WILLIAM WASHINGTON GRAVES, medical scientist of the University of St. Louis, has made the unique discovery that the scapulae or shoulder-blades tell whether man is potentially healthy, longer lived and more disease resistant than his fellow-man. Dr. Graves has come to the conclusion that persons having the convex-type of shoulder blades have a better chance in life than those who have straight or concave scapulae.
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What drug do you think it was? Meth?
SAFE DRUG TAKES OFF TWO POUNDS A WEEK
Discovery of a drug that enables overweight persons to reduce safely without exercise is reported to the American Medical Association by two California research workers. Experiments conducted by the discoverers, Dr. W. C. Cutting and M. L. Thayer of the Stanford Medical Laboratories, show that daily doses of the drug will remove two pounds of weight a week.
HOW TO SLEEP
By West F. Peterson
WHEN the talk at a recent New York cocktail party veered around to the subject of how to fall asleep, there were offered as many theories as there were guests.
“My system is sure-fire,” said an advertising man. “Just before going to bed I eat a tremendous slice of Bermuda onion. It lulls my brain and I drop off immediately. My wife benefits too. The fumes seem to knock her out and she’s asleep as soon as I am.”
A frilly young matron sniffed disdainfully. “Any doctor will tell you not to eat before you get in bed,” she said. “What I do is imagine I’m floating on a lovely pink cloud high above green pastures in which brown-and-white cows are grazing. It never fails.”
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I’m not exactly a medical expert, but this seems like a bad idea. CO2 stimulates respiration because you can’t breathe it. Though this tent would probably work great for a baby tree.
A Dry-Ice Oxygen Tent for Infants
IN the constant battle to cut down the infant mortality rate due to diseases easily contracted when vitality is relatively low, physicians have developed a new type of oxygen tent, which uses dry-ice in combination with the oxygen. Of course, it is a well-known fact that carbon dioxide stimulates respiration; dry-ice is pure carbon dioxide.
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I’m thinking the ability to turn the drill on and off might be a little dangerous, not to mention really annoying to the dentist.
Patient In New Dental Chair Controls Drill and Gas
THE patient is king in a new painless dentistry chair now in use in a Chicago dentist’s office. When drilling becomes excessively painful the patient, by means of a button held in the left hand can turn off the drill. If the patient prefers to have the work continue, but wishes to eliminate the pain, he or she can press a bulb held in the right and administer a dose of pain killing gas.
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Do you have to wear lipstick for them to work?
Pills That Increase Your Intelligence
BY DONALD G. COOLEY
CAN you feed your brain some special food to make it smarter? Scientists have always laughed at the idea. Now they aren’t quite so cocksure. Maybe your brain does have faster speed and quicker getaway when it runs on certain fuels. New scientific discoveries indicate that brain power can be stepped up by swallowing tablets. These pills are not stimulating drugs but concentrates of a food element
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And you thought Crocs were ugly.
OPEN SANDALS ARE ADVISED IN WAR ON HIGH HEELS
As a correct substitute for high-heel pumps, which he considers are destructive to the general health of women and the beauty of their feet, open-work leather sandals have been offered by a famous English surgeon. These shoes, he asserts, are more comfortable, promote bodily vigor, and do not cause spinal and nervous disorders which may result from wearing those that have elevated arches and heels.
Things were pretty weird before closed circuit TV.
Telescopes and Mirror
give many eyes a close-up view of a delicate cataract operation which heretofore could be observed by only one or two. It happened in Doctors’ Hospital, L. A.
