Word: spastic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prostigmine, a chemical long used against myasthenia gravis (a sometimes fatal fatigue& -weakness disease) and lately found useful for polio (TIME, Aug. 23, 1943), now turns out to help some cases of crippling arthritis, spastic paralysis, facial paralysis, paralytic stroke. After treatment with prostigmine, one paralytic, reported Dr. Herman Rabat of the U.S. Public Health Service, moved his right side for the first time in 17 years...
Some other Calvert students: a trailer-housed family of professional rollerskaters; a child on a Montana Indian reservation; a Vermont spastic; an Oregon child with a speech defect; a missionary's child on the Congo-Nile watershed; an Alaskan reindeer rancher's child; the governess-taught child of a Newport socialite...
...Richard C. Gill brought back a big supply of curare from the jungles, hoping it would help spastic paralysis (TIME, July 22, 1940). It was not much help, because its effects are transient. But doctors soon began to use curare to pre vent bone breaking in metrazol shock treatments for insanity...
Sister Kenny believes that the chief symptom of infantile paralysis is spasm (involuntary muscle contraction), which bends joints and stretches the opposing muscles. She thinks the spastic muscles are the diseased ones, begins by treating the spasm, then re-educates the stretched muscles, which she says are merely "alienated," not paralyzed. Her critics' explanation of the disease is almost exactly the opposite...
...This spastic inspiration is not something Pianist Donegan has learned. In fact, she spent a lot of time trying to unlearn it. Dorothy was born on Chicago's dusky South Side, still lives there. Her father is a dining-car chef. When Dorothy was eight, her mother, who had always wanted to play the piano but could never get near enough to one to learn how, decided that, come what may, Dorothy must have lessons. Dorothy got them at the Chicago Conservatory of Music, where she studied classical music for four years. The Conservatory's high-brow teachers...