Word: potts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many otherwise unrelated diseases produce spasms, tremor or stiffness of muscles: infantile paralysis, cerebral palsy, chronic rheumatism, arthritis, Parkinson's disease (paralysis agitans), apoplexy, Pott's disease (tuberculosis of the spine), hardening of the arteries. The doctors tried the drug, given by mouth, on 59 patients; all but one showed improvement-sometimes in five minutes. Drs. Berger and Schwartz consider their work still in the experimental stage...
Antlered Kingdom. In Rockaway Township, N.J., Dewey Pott thought he saw a deer skating, roped it, found that it had grown six-inch rockers on its hoofs...