Word: spinal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...surprising fact about the classes, Fradd says, is that while all the men groan under the heavy exercises devised to correct the hollow chests and sagging spinal columns, many of the men ask permission to continue longer than the required six week period. The results of the exercises apparently justify the effort, and some men have reported to Fradd of their own accord during the greater part of a year...
...accomplishments of the Commission, acting in co-operation with the health departments of Massachusetts and Vermont, are two. A serum has been prepared from the spinal fluids of infected patients and made available to the local physicians. The serum is not an infallible cure, but it has been found ordinarily to be a remedy if administered during the three days interval between ingestion and actual paralysis. Second, Dr. Lloyd W. Aycock, head of the Commission, and a veteran warrior against the disease, has had explained through the press the very slight differences during the three day period between a heavy...
...coins, a surgical lancet, sandal imprints on cement. ¶Sir Humphrey Rolleston consoled his fellow countrymen by telling the British Medical Association that mummies almost 5,000 years old examined by him bore traces of gout, tuberculosis, pyorrhea; that a bust of Alexander the Great gave hints of cerebro-spinal meningitis...
...raise money to help onetime Private Kissinger. Not long ago friends had found him nearly destitute, broken in body and mind from the illnesses that followed the yellow fever he caught that night near Quemados. For nearly 20 years, he has lain in a wheel-chair suffering from spinal myelitis. His wife has nursed him and supported him. But the U. S. has not been overgenerous with its rewards to the men who helped stamp out yellow fever. While one year of yellow fever was estimated to have cost the State of Louisiana alone 4,056 lives...
...Berlin, Dr. L. Schoenbauer examined his ten dogs speculatively; drained off the fluid from their spinal columns; replaced the fluid with air. Then he patiently hit each dog on the head with a hammer, and in each case the dog died of concussion of the brain...