Word: lumbago
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...league baseball, Gehrig has only once been dangerously hurt. This was when a pitched ball knocked him unconscious in 1934. But he was in the lineup the next day, hit three triples in five innings. Closest call of all came when Gehrig was laid up with acute lumbago. To save his record, Manager Joe McCarthy had him motored to the park, put him at the head of the batting order instead of his usual position of 4th, made arrangements to have him whisked back to his sick bed as soon as he could contrive...
...Binet, Féré, Liebeault, Lloyd Tuckey. It is generally agreed among psychiatrists that hypnotism is of value in treating stammering and certain hysterical neuroses. Dr. Cannon believes it is useful in treating tetanus, diabetes, prostatic enlargement, menstrual disorders and in relieving the pain of childbirth, pleurisy, sciatica, lumbago, neuralgia, cancer, ulcers...
...never lost, a respect for facts. He distrusted speculation in vacuo, abstract dialectic, and learning from books. . . . But James felt, as we have seen, a growing distaste for experimental psychology owing to physical and temperamental reasons. He lacked the strength to spend long hours in a laboratory; a recurrent lumbago prevented his standing, and trouble with his eyes interfered with his use of the microscope. With his precarious health there went a fitfulness of mood that incapacitated him for continuous routine. And then James had a romantic mind, eager for new adventure and repelled by detail and repetition. The psychological...
...belt made of rattlesnake skin to keep lumbago away...
...Other saintly patrons against physical ills: Giles (cripples), Erasmus (colic and cramps), Vitus (epilepsy, nervousness), Lawrence (lumbago), Benedict (poison), Timothy (stomach trouble), Apollonia (toothache), Anthony (pestilence), Catherine of Siena (headache), Thomas (blindness...