If this proves to be nothing it won’t be from lack of staff’s and patient’s [sic] cooperation. As Dr. Rock philosophically remarked, “If this thing is not ‘it’ then some other one in the future will be.”

But the specimen was “it.” Carnegie egg number 7699 was the first ovum they discovered and, at 11 and one-half days, the youngest found to that time.

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