Word: spinal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lewis. As a matter of routine, County Coroner John Clarence Dingman performed an autopsy. In Supreme Court at New City, N. Y. last week Charles Lewis' father sued Coroner Dingman for $10,000, claiming he had suffered that much mental anguish because his son's brain and spinal cord, which he said the coroner had removed, had not been buried with the rest of his remains...
...will relax, the blood pressure will fall. To make such relaxation permanent, surgeons like Dr. Alfred Washington Adson of the Mayo Clinic cut the sympathetic nerves involved. The most effective operation. said Dr. Adson, is rhizotomy, or the snipping of the nerve roots as they come out of the spinal column. To accomplish this, Dr. Adson cuts ribs on both sides of the chest and almost takes the torso apart...
...medical thought that has been trying to intrude itself for the past several weeks. Last week shock-haired Dr. John Augustus Toomey, children's specialist of Cleveland's Western Reserve University, impatiently declared that many of the cases must have been "gastro-neuritis with spinal fluid changes." This seems to be a newly recognized disease. Its symptoms-pain in head and upper abdomen, pain on movement, increase of certain cells in spinal fluid and blood-pass quickly. There are no known aftereffects...
Last week, also, Dr. Toomey impatiently objected to the current belief advanced by Dr. Simon Flexner, that infantile paralysis is contracted through the nose, whence the virus passes up the nerve of smell to the brain and spinal cord. In Science last week Dr. Toomey flatly declared: "In the human being the causative agent usually enters the digestive system," whence it passes to the spine by way of sympathetic nerves. According to Dr. Toomey true infantile paralysis is caused by a virus which attacks nerves after a toxin created by the virus makes those nerves vulnerable. The paralysis which...
...nebular hypothesis before Kant and LaPlace, anticipated all Scandinavian geologists in his studies of paleontology, was first to explain the phenomenon of phosphorescence, beat modern physicists by 150 years with his molecular magnetic theory and modern physiologists with his discoveries concerning the nature and activity of the brain, spinal cord and ductless glands...