Word: elbows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every time I trapped that guy, he jabbed me right in the teeth with his elbow." At game's end a surgeon took 30 stitches inside Lombardi's mouth...
...Harold Cohen in the New England Journal of Medicine, in which a fish tank served as the incubator. The germ, undiscovered until the early 1950s, had previously been found nourishing only in swimming pools. There it has caused several outbreaks of what has usually been called simply sore elbow...
...little (pop. 3,600) Glenwood Springs. Colo., which boasts a Texas-size pool: 650 ft. long, 110 ft. wide at the deep end. It was kept at a sybaritic 82°-85° by piping in water from a hot mineral spring. Trouble was, swimmers chafed their elbows on the pool's rough sides, and bacilli moved into the broken skin. There were at least 262 cases of "sore elbow" in the area. Doctors who tried antibiotics, anti-tuberculosis drugs, X ray, vitamins and plastic surgery did no better than nature. Most of the sores healed after...
Nobody knows how many cases of swimming-pool elbow or fish-tank finger may have gone undetected. "Swimming pools and fish tanks." says Dr. Swift, "constitute giant culture bowls-in both, water is being constantly recirculated and kept at certain temperatures that might happen to be suitable for the growth of the bacilli." Temperature seems to be a critical factor. In the laboratory, the bacilli grow poorly in a cool medium or at blood heat, do best at around 80°. That is in the temperature range of the exposed elbows and hands where they form abscesses...
...kidnaped in 1911 by an Italian fanatic and was missing for two years; then her left elbow was chipped by a stone-throwing Brazilian. In recent years she has resided safely and quietly in Paris, well cared for by doting Frenchmen, who used to value her at $10 million, now insure her for $100 million and really think she is priceless. Just the same, if high-level negotiations work out the details for her comfort, Leonardo da Vinci's enigmatic Mona Lisa will leave the Louvre next year for her first visit to the U.S. to tour the National...