arising in the preparation of the silver nitrate solution. A group of doctors decided that the situation could no longer be borne, and at once they set about studying the various antiseptics; nor was it hard for them to single out penicillin from all the rest—that wondrous drug whose results have dazzled the world and kindled a new hope across the broad horizons of medicine.
And indeed, as the outcome of their many attempts, the doctors obtained astonishing results, and not a single case of blindness occurred among the newborns on whom the penicillin trials were made that year. These doctors became certain that they had found what they had been seeking. But this question—the question of replacing silver nitrate with penicillin—proved of greater consequence than they had reckoned, for these doctors are bound by a legal oath, and it is not easy to break it so long as public opinion does not stir a finger in the matter. And so the doctors will remain with their hands tied until public opinion, and then the governments, bestir themselves to loose their bonds by amending the law and substituting penicillin for the silver nitrate solution, to be dropped into the eyes of every newborn at the hour of birth—out of care for the eyes of our dear children against a near danger that may threaten their sight and rob them of the enjoyment of light, the joy of life!
Women who have no hope in life and who live forever on its margin. They are:
— A woman who has lost the beauty of her soul, the most precious thing an honorable woman keeps.
— A woman who has followed her own headstrong will to follow the devil into hell.
— A woman... who forever forgets that she is a woman... possessed of a woman's tenderness, a woman's femininity, and a woman's modesty.
