Lazar C. Margulies
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Lazar C. Margulies(1895-1982) was a physician who specialized inobstetricsandgynecology.He is best known for developing a type of safeIntrauterine device(IUD) made ofplastic.
Biography
[edit]Margulies was born inGalicia,which later became part ofPoland.[1]He served in theAustro-Hungarian armyinWorld War Iin their medical corps.[2]On 11 June 1919, while a student at University in Vienna, he married fellow medical student Rafaella Pomeranz; they had two children, Stephen (later Steven, born 28 April 1927) and Bibi (later Phoebe, born 30 December 1931). Margulies completed his studies at theUniversity of Viennain 1921.[1]Following this, he continued his training while working as a gynecologist and obstetrician.
Margulies worked inViennafrom 1929 until 1938.[2]Later, as theNazi movementspread, because he wasJewish.[1]he was arrested as a political prisoner and held in Buchenwald as inmate number 20124 in Block 20. On 17 February 1939 he was put into the standard striped clothing worn by inmates and given a new number 5585. He was released from Buchenwald on 28 April 1939 after his family had made plans to emigrate to Great Britain.
Margulies fled toBritainin 1940.[2]In 1941 he emigrated to theUnited Stateswhere he settled inNew York City.[1]Margulies started working atMount Sinai Medical Centerin 1954.[1]
Margulies was working in theobstetricsdepartment of Mount Sinai in 1958 when he suggested his idea for a new IUD to the head of the department,Alan F. Guttmacher.[3]Margulies has successfully used IUDs in Berlin.[4]Guttmacher approved Margulies' idea to create a safer type of IUD using plastic.[3]Margulies developed aspiral-shaped IUD in 1960.[1]It was made ofthermoplasticand introduced in a thin tube and then "expelled with a plastic plunger."[1]After it was expelled, the plastic IUD retained its shape inside theuterus.[4]The method of insertion Margulies developed meant that a woman'scervixdid not have to be dilated for the insertion to take place.[4]Margulies' method solved many problems inherent in metallic IUDs.[5]Guttmacher allowed Margulies to do clinical trials which were successful.[4]Margulies presented the clinical results and demonstrated the plastic IUD at the first international symposium on IUDs in New York in 1962.[6]His invention was patented in 1965 and assigned to Mount Sinai by Margulies.[2][7]
Margulies died in 1982 of acerebral hemorrhage[1]inManhattan.[2]
References
[edit]Citations
[edit]- ^abcdefghThiery 1997,p. 6.
- ^abcde"Dr. Lazar Margulies, 87, Surgeon".The New York Times.10 March 1982.Retrieved24 March2016.
- ^abBullough, Vern L.; Bullough, Bonnie, eds. (1994).Human Sexuality: An Encyclopedia.Routledge. p. 313.ISBN9781135825027.
- ^abcdReed, James (1984).The Birth Control Movement and American Society: From Private Vice to Public Virtue.Princeton University Press. p. 306.ISBN9781400856596.
- ^Thiery 1997,p. 9.
- ^Thiery 1997,p. 4.
- ^Margulies, Lazar (17 August 1965)."Coil Spring Intra-Uterine Contraceptive Device and Method of Using"(PDF).Free Patents Online.Retrieved24 March2016.
Sources
[edit]- Thiery, M. (March 1997)."Pioneers of the Intrauterine Device"(PDF).The European Journal of Contraception and Reproductive Health Care.2(1). The Parthenon Publishing Group: 15–23.doi:10.1080/13625189709049930.PMID9678105.Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 20 August 2006.Retrieved24 March2016.