Word: guillain
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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Last week, brought back from the brink of the grave by the teamwork of 15 doctors and countless corpsmen, Kirn navigated his first unaided steps down a Bethesda corridor. Most Guillain-Barré victims, if they survive the first critical weeks, regain full use of their muscles. But not many have such a long and arduous way to come back as Bullet Lou Kirn. It had taken him three months even to wiggle his fingers and toes. Now, on a Spartan daily schedule which includes "walks" in the swimming pool, typing to exercise his fingers, pulling on a block...
...Named for French Neurologists Georges Guillain and Jean Barré, and called "syndrome" because it is a set of symptoms, not a specific disease. Other names: Landry's paralysis, infectious (or postinfectious) polyneuritis, acute idiopathic polyneuritis, and even encephalo-myeloradiculoneuritis...
What kind of a fight would it be? If there was no solution at Geneva, Navarre predicted there would be "internationalization of the war"-meaning allied intervention. And for France? Henceforth from Dienbienphu, the old ways of war could no longer suffice. Robert Guillain, Le Monde's able correspondent, cabled a bitter valedictory from Hanoi...