Word: spastic
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...Indian arrow poison curare (rhymes with safari) is sometimes used in abdominal surgery and in spastic paralysis, to relax taut muscles. But doctors have not generally liked it much, because an overdose will kill a patient...
...fourth source of irritation has resulted from her recently acquired interest in spastic paralysis, a disease in which damaged nerves cause uncoordinated movements. When she took four such cases into the Kenny Institute for treatment, local doctors had them removed. Sister Kenny soon resigned from the Institute. The Institute's board of directors refused to accept Sister Kenny's resignation and the Institute promised to do "everything hu manly possible" to further the research she wants...
...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...