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W B Ober

Publications and source records attributed to W B Ober.

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PubMed1991

The man in the scarlet cloak. The mysterious death of Peter Anthony Motteux.

Peter Anthony Motteux (1663-1718), a Huguenot refugee in London, established a literary reputation by completing Sir Thomas Urquhart's translation of Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel, then Cervantes' Don Quixote. He later became an import-export merchant. On his 55th birthday he donned his scarlet cloak and went out on the town. He picked up a prostitute and after some dalliance returned to her bordello. Shortly thereafter he was found dead, although the evidence is that he was in good health when he arrived. Literary evidence is that he died from assisted erotic asphyxia, a variant of autoerotic asphyxia, cf. the case of Frantisek Koczwara (Am J Forensic Med Pathol 5:145-149, 1984.)

Asphyxia↗
PubMed1990

Anorectal trauma.

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Adolescent↗
PubMed1989

To cast a pox. The iconography of syphilis.

A survey of syphilis as depicted in art from 1496 to 1773 with emphasis on the absence of a depiction of a primary genital chancre for almost three centuries is presented.

Europe↗
PubMed1987

Pathology of trophoblastic diseases.

This paper furnishes a synoptic overview of the anatomic pathology of trophoblastic growths, with some reference to clinical implications. I will attempt to provide definitions and generalizations; however, the limitation of this approach is all too familiar. Definitions are constructed to cover the borderline case, but the borderline, as if by definition, escapes. For every generalization there are exceptions, and any pathologist who has assembled a large series of cases of a given disease entity is acutely aware of the exceptions he has encountered. Likewise, classifications are an artifact we superimpose on nature in an attempt to make order from experience and to rationalize it. It can be awkward, if not unfair, to shove the square peg of the biologic case into the round hole of man-made taxonomy.

Choriocarcinoma↗
PubMed1977

Effects of oral and intrauterine administration of contraceptives on the uterus.

Combined regimen contraceptive steroids produce precocious endometrial secretion, followed by involution leading to a suppressed endometrium with small tubular glands and failure of spiral arterioles to develop; decidua-like stromal changes are dose related as is dilatation of venules. Thrombosis of the latter, perhaps estrogen mediated, leads to local tissue infarction and is the proximate cause of "breakthrough bleeding". Sequential regimen contraceptive steroids lead to retarded endometrial secretion, failure of spiral arterioles to develop, and a weak decidua-like stromal transformation. Contraceptive steroids occasionally produce polypoid lesions of the endocervix with atypical microglandular hyperplasia. There are conflicting reports about the effects of contraceptive steroids on the squamous epithelium of the exocervix, but they neither protect against cancer nor cause it in the usually accepted sense. Uterine leiomyomas may exhibit increased cellularity and bizarre, hyperchromatic nuclei or mutinucleation in women receiving contraceptive steroids. Both polyethylene and metal-containing intrauterine devices may initiate inflammatory responses in the endometrium varying from mild to severe, related to the time the device has been in contact with the mucosa. Salpingitis and ectopic pregnancy are increased in frequency in device users.

Adult↗