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While recovering from a slipped disc, Municipal Bond Trader John B. Northrop (right) of Huntington, N.Y., spent four days carefully reading President Nixon's Watergate transcripts -and discovered a rather sloppy error...
...Tale of the Giant Rat of Sumatra is the latest disc from the Firesign Theatre. It marks a return to the group's earlier mode: the 40-minute sound drama with crooked cast and treacherous plot line. The protagonist this time is Hemlock Stones, Firesign Theatre's addition to a history of Sherlock Holmes variants. He and his Watson, Dr. Flotsom, live to 99 Bakersfield St. in London, and produce cheap detective novels...
...Spinal discs, cushionlike pads that separate the vertebrae, are composed of tough, cartilaginous fibers and filled with water and a protein called "ground substance." When surrounding tissues tear, the disc bulges, or slips, out of its normal position, causing pain in the back and, when it pushes against the sciatic nerve, in the legs...
Most slipped discs can be treated successfully by the prescription of bed rest or aspirin or other painkillers. If the pain persists, doctors frequently perform a laminectomy, a delicate surgical procedure in which the disc is removed from between two vertebrae, which are then fused together. But in many cases, chymopapain may now provide an alternative to surgery. The enzyme injected into the disc breaks down the ground substance, enabling it and the water to escape and be absorbed by the body. That causes the disc to shrink back into place, thus easing the pressure on the surrounding nerves...
...still experimental enzyme treatment has not yet been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for widespread application. Thus use of the substance is restricted to certain medical centers that are still investigating its efficacy and safety. But those who have used chymopapain for slipped discs have uniformly reported good results. For example, at Massachusetts General Hospital, which recently opened a clinic to treat back problems, Drs. James Huddleston and Robert Boyd have injected chymopapain into 250 slipped-disc sufferers over the past 2% years. In three-fourths of the cases, they report, both the rupture and the pain were...