Word: ataxia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...again going full blast, but Sullivan could not bring himself to join those who aligned themselves cocksurely on one side or the other. He devoted himself to writing novels, lived in a small cottage in Surrey, neglected to the last to take regular medical treatment. Suffering from locomotor ataxia, he died in an advanced stage of syphilis...
...Huntington's chorea, hereditary optic atrophy, familial cases of Friedreich's ataxia, and certain other disabling degenerative diseases recognized to be hereditary...
...University of Paris, started a neurological clinic at the old Salpetriere (public hospital for the aged and insane) which wielded a potent influence in medicine and psychiatry. Charcot pooh-poohed the antique physiological theories of hysteria, probed the psychological sources through hypnotism. He differentiated the manifestations of locomotor ataxia, published researches on many another malady from gout to chronic pneumonia, some of which bear his name. At the height of his fame a young physician named Sigmund Freud went to study with him, and under his tutelage and encouragement pursued the researches that eventually flowered in Freudian psychoanalysis...
...child is immune, nothing will happen to the mouse. But, wrote Dr. Brodie in Science last week, if the child is susceptible to infantile paralysis, after two days "the clinical picture in the mouse is quite acute. It begins with irritability, jumpiness, ruffled hair and goes on to ataxia [dragging] of the hind legs, humped back, convulsions, circular movements, twisting of the head and sometimes ptosis [drooping] of the eyelids. The animals usually die within a few hours after the onset of the symptoms...
...travelled on a bus and believe the "Fugitive Lovers" gives an authentic picture of one, you may rush to the nearest bus station and start for the coast. Irrelevant as the following remark may be, we feel duty bound to warn you that biliousness, depression, and not infrequently locomotor ataxia result from one ride on these floundering monsters. But this film tries to make one believe that adventure and romance breed on buses. If you desire fantasy, "Fugitive Lovers" is pleasant enough...