Word: crippler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this evidence, Asian flu joins German measles as a crippler and killer of children in the womb...
...thing that all forms of rheumatism have in common is that they affect connective tissue. Despite its wide occurrence in the body, connective tissue* is still something of a mystery to medical researchers. And because rheumatism is a crippler rather than a killer, and victims drag out their lives undramatically, only meager funds have been allocated for research into its causes and cures. Recently research has been stepped up on a broad front. The result has been dramatic progress in some areas, but disappointingly little in others. The scoreboard...
...National Multiple Sclerosis Society has now summed up five years of fund-raising and fact-finding on the mysterious crippler. Of $813,000 raised, one-fourth has been used to educate both doctors and laymen in the ways of multiple sclerosis; $388,000 has gone into research. So far, nobody knows what causes the nerve sheaths in the spine and brain to degenerate, so that nerves become useless. But Manhattan's Neurological Institute is working on the possibility of an allergic origin for the disease; Tulane University is checking the viruses as possible culprits...