Word: cording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, also, Dr. Toomey impatiently objected to the current belief advanced by Dr. Simon Flexner, that infantile paralysis is contracted through the nose, whence the virus passes up the nerve of smell to the brain and spinal cord. In Science last week Dr. Toomey flatly declared: "In the human being the causative agent usually enters the digestive system," whence it passes to the spine by way of sympathetic nerves. According to Dr. Toomey true infantile paralysis is caused by a virus which attacks nerves after a toxin created by the virus makes those nerves vulnerable. The paralysis which...
...minutes Dr. Preissecker tinkered with the camera. Dr. Weibel could not help much. He was obliged to hold the baby who was still attached to the umbilical cord, which was still attached to the placenta, which was still attached to the womb of the unconscious woman on the operating table...
...baby took an untimely breath and mewled. Dr. Weibel, recollecting his proper business, hastily clamped and severed the umbilical cord, laid the baby aside until he could complete his caesarean work on the mother...
...nebular hypothesis before Kant and LaPlace, anticipated all Scandinavian geologists in his studies of paleontology, was first to explain the phenomenon of phosphorescence, beat modern physicists by 150 years with his molecular magnetic theory and modern physiologists with his discoveries concerning the nature and activity of the brain, spinal cord and ductless glands...
Chairman Errett Lobban Cord...