Word: sciatica
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...crack Juilliard School, played Bach and Liszt on the piano, first straight, then hot. The authentic afflatus descended upon Café Society on its opening night, when a pale young man, one of the guests, stepped up with a clarinet. It was Benny Goodman, just recovered from long illness (sciatica). When he sent out Somebody Stole My Gal, pure, liquid, brilliant, the place rocked...
...Vitamin B1 (thiamin): for beriberi, anorexia, certain heart disturbances, inadequate lactation, nerve diseases of alcoholism, facial neuralgia, cirrhosis of the liver, sciatica...
...then Austria, now Poland), got to the U. S. in 1912 on a borrowed $300. He dug coal for six years in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois at War-boom wages. In 1917 he was not drafted for the army because he came from an enemy country. When he developed sciatica in 1918, he was affluent enough to retire to the baths at Hot Springs, Ark. for two years. In 1920 he turned waiter, soon owned his own restaurant in Hot Springs. He bought real estate and mortgages, had $6,000 when he was arrested in 1934. He no longer...
...lack of orders from the brain to do something, the injured part relaxes, does nothing. This gives injured local nerves opportunity to heal and to help the injured muscles which they serve, to heal also. Dr. Greene finds his anodyne an aid in the treatment of back injuries, sciatica and shaking palsy. In cases of inoperable cancer the patient has opportunity to die in peace...
...tennis, it is very easy to produce an osteopathic lesion. A badly done swallow [U. S.: swan] dive may have similar results. Overindulgence in sports and the craze for speed are in a general way favorable to barrenness. . . . Quite frequently a patient consults an osteopath and complains of sciatica, and sometimes she prefers to keep her sciatica and remain sterile...