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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pain, never cure it. Some surgeons stop the neuralgia by cutting the offending nerve, thus preventing it from carrying its message of pain to the brain. This operation occasionally paralyzes the painful side of the face, causes the features to droop lopsidedly. Other surgeons treat facial neuralgia by injecting alcohol into the nerve, thus stultifying it for a period. This procedure is difficult. The operator must push his hypodermic needle through the cheek and into a small notch in the skull midway between cheek bone and ear. Then he must blindly puncture a nerve slimmer than the lead...
Joan is a jobless showgirl whose agent Nicky (Gregory Ratoff) gets national publicity for her when Farraday, a famed film actor with Shakespearean inclinations, fancies her as his ideal Juliet. Vigorously vacationing, but forbidden alcohol, Farraday is kept supplied by Nicky with bay rum ("South American brandy"), which he absorbs out of a hot-water bottle, through a straw. Stimulated, Romeo is madly in love with Juliet. Sober, he has no use for her. Kidnapped by his manager to keep him out of trouble, Romeo is chased across the U. S. by Juliet and Nicky, finally corralled for a radio...
...fundamentally because Mary wanted to get more fun out of life while Jock wanted to make more money. Bill saw true love withstand marital unfaithfulness; he even tried to help it withstand the end of Jock's prosperity in 1929. When the rehabilitating spirit of 1935 reached the alcohol-sodden and philandering Jock, Mary felt she had a right to leave him, since he did not need her any more. Once more Hallam, loving Mary still, proved that he loved more his now habitual role of family friend...
...consulted with other anatomists on what to do. Then he flayed and boned "Harriet" piecemeal, spent months getting out every last tiny nerve in her corpse. As Dr. Weaver freed a length of nerve, he kept it soft and flexible by wrapping it in gauze and cotton wet with alcohol. When "Harriet" became no more than a pair of eyes, a dura mater, a spinal cord and a lacework of branching nerves, Dr. Weaver stiffened her with white paint, pinned her to a board...
...them, causing intense agony. Muscles may lose their tone, permit the limbs to dangle. The diagnostic problem is to discover and treat the original cause of the neural inflammation. This may be some toxin absorbed by the system, such as poisonous metals (lead, arsenic, bismuth, mercury) or carbon compounds (alcohol, Jamaica ginger, carbon monoxide, ether). Toxins may be generated, among other ailments, by childbed fever or diabetes. Neuritis may be the result of infections like diphtheria, typhoid, scarlet fever, measles, rheumatism, mumps, gonorrhea, smallpox, pneumonia, blood poisoning, malaria, tuberculosis, syphilis. It may be due to chronic anemia, senility, cancer, arterial...