Word: cordes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fortnight ago. Seaman Recruit Joseph Wilkowski reported to sick bay at the San Diego Naval Training Center. From his symptoms-including stiff neck and a rash-the medics decided they were up against meningitis, inflammation of the protective sheathing of the spinal cord and brain. And among the many microbes that can cause meningitis, they identified the cause of Wilkowski's illness as the meningococcus...
...Glenn J. Doman treats partly paralyzed patients by training them to "capture" reflex movements by a conscious effort. An obvious one is the knee jerk. The therapist provokes this by hitting the knee with a little rubber mallet. The nerve impulses involved travel only as far as the spinal cord, and the patient cannot make the movement of his own volition. But after willing himself to do it often enough, the patient contributes some movement of his own. The clincher comes when the therapist swings the hammer and does not hit the right spot, but the knee jerks anyway. Somehow...
...Manhattan office. His two sons were not at home; one was with the armed forces in Germany, the other at college. His 14-year-old daughter Gail got out of bed, put on a bed jacket and started downstairs. Suddenly, a tall, mustached Negro grabbed her, looped a cord round her neck, dragged her back into her bedroom, locked the door and began choking her. She fainted, and when she awoke, she heard noises downstairs. Rushing into the living room, she found the man strangling her mother. She leaped on him to tear him away...
Even before its official opening, its 50 beds were filled with patients suffering from skull fractures, Parkinson's disease, tumors of the brain and spinal cord, and assorted other examples of the 200 human ills loosely classed as neurological. It had already undertaken its first operation, for a temporal-lobe defect causing epilepsy. The 13-member team in the operating room included an electronics engineer, a neurophysiologist, a neuroanesthesiologist, an electroencephalographer, and a behavioral psychologist...
...syphilis victims pass through the primary and secondary stages without knowing what has hit them. Then the spirochete goes underground, to erupt at intervals over the years in new active phases. Finally, in about half of the untreated cases, it attacks the heart and aorta, the brain and spinal cord. If the victim does not die of heart disease, he may end his days as a lame, blind, insane, partially paralyzed patient in a mental hospital...