Word: boned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...destroy the choroid plexus in her first two ventricles, thus diminishing the water supply to her brain. (The third and fourth ventricles are smaller, produce minute quantities of water.) First he made a one-inch slit on the top of her scalp, cut out a small plug of bone. Into the tiny hole he inserted his ventriculoscope...
...about two inches of choroid plexus. Turning on the electricity, he seared off all the feathery tissue he could reach with his hot wire. Within a half hour he had cauterized the choroid plexus in both ventricles. After the operation, he gently withdrew the tube, inserted the plug of bone, neatly stitched up the baby's scalp...
...thumb. Gradually the other fingers shrivel into a typical "clawhand." Then the arm muscles slowly waste away. After the disease has been intrenched for many years, a patient may lose control of his trunk, face and leg muscles. At the end, he may be little more than skin & bone...
...those resolutions, they are not the expressions of "a hot, hard-shelled, bone-picking mood." Baptists are devoted to the principle of absolute separation of Church and State. Their protests arise from this devotion. I assure you that the protests were without the slightest disrespect for the Catholics, the Catholic Church, or the exalted Heads of that Church. . . . The protest was an expression of the Baptist conviction derived from the Holy Scriptures and confirmed by bitter experience that absolute separation of Church and State is indispensable, and that every beginning in the direction of connection of Church and State ought...
...inexpensive vitallium for making successful peg teeth. Into the gaping socket of a willing patient, who was first given a local anesthetic, he inserted a vitallium screw, working it into the jawbone about five-eighths of an inch just as a carpenter screws into wood. To his delight, new bone tissue soon closed tightly around the screw, and the patient was able to chew comfortably with the protruding head. After several months, Dr. Strock cemented a handsome false tooth shell, known as a porcelain jacket crown, on to the head of the screw, and the tooth looked and felt...