“England’s Test-Tube Baby”
The first baby to be conceived outside of it’s mother promises to usher in a new and maybe, a revolutionary era of human reproduction. In July, Lesley Brown was getting close to delivery. This was said to be the world’s first test-tube baby at the Oldham and District General Hospital, 190 miles outside of London. The infant was “created” when the egg of the mother was joined with the father’s sperm in a special culture medium prepared by gynecologist …showed first 85 words of 483 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 483 total…John Rock, a pioneer of development of the birth control pill, reported that he and colleagues had managed to fertilize an egg in vito. But other scientists believe that few cell divisions observed by Rock were nothing more than “ parthenogic cleavage.” (Division of the egg with out the involvement of the sperm), probably introduced by incidental stimulation of the ovum. Lesley Brown delivered her baby at 11:47 p.m. Dr.Patrick Steptoe proudly reported, “ The anxieties are over. We’ve got a nice, healthy, normal baby.”
