[PRCo] Re: PRC roster updates

[Edward H. Lybarger]

In 1961, my father was hospitalized for two weeks for a hernia repair.  When
the job had to be redone in 1998, it was an outpatient thing.  Yes, we've
come a long way.

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From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of Fred
W. Schneider III
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 7:57 PM
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Subject: [PRCo] Re: PRC roster updates



Terrible to say this ... but you must be a little older than I am.  My
grandmother gave birth to two children, allegedly on the dining room
table at a house near Perrysville and Charles on Pittsburgh's North
Side, in 1909 and 1920.  So sometime between 1928 and 1940 it must have
become common to go to the hospital????  Somewhere after 1928 either the
doctors found a cash cow or they convinced women it was safer to have
children in a surgical environment.

It is amazing how far we've gone in the 20th century with medicine.
I've had a triple cardiac bypass and two replacement knees in ther last
five years.  In 1953 I was in the hospital for an entire week with an
appendectomy.  Sometime after his birth in 1907, my father had his
appendectomy in the doctor's office in Marietta, Ohio.  Was there an
anesthesiologist present?  You might say that.  The doctor gave my
grandfather a chloroform spiked rag and told him to put it over the
kid's nose if he moves! In spite of such primitive surgery, Dad lived to
age 90 in 1997.

Harold Geissenheimer wrote:
>
> Greetings
>
> To add fuel to the fire, I was born AT HOME in 1928 in
> North Bergen, NJ.  It was a common practice.
>
> Harold Geissenheimer
>
> Derrick J Brashear wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Re: #2:  Weren't we all?
> >
> > West Penn (Hospital, not Railways car)
> >
> > > 2.  I was born in Magee Woman's Hospital.