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In the annals of quirky medical inventions, George Blonsky's rotating birth table takes the cake. Blonsky, an engineer with a flair for the unconventional, introduced a spinning table designed to help women during childbirth in 1965. The idea? Centrifugal force is used to “assist” the babies’ descent through the birth canal. Supposedly, this would make labor quicker and easier for the mothers. Sounds futuristic, right? Well, not quite.

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Blonsky. Flying Babies?

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    2025年

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  • Sibylle Scholtz,
  • Myriam Becker,
  • Lee MacMorris,
  • Achim Langenbucher

摘要

In the annals of quirky medical inventions, George Blonsky's rotating birth table takes the cake. Blonsky, an engineer with a flair for the unconventional, introduced a spinning table designed to help women during childbirth in 1965. The idea? Centrifugal force is used to “assist” the babies’ descent through the birth canal. Supposedly, this would make labor quicker and easier for the mothers. Sounds futuristic, right? Well, not quite.