Word: spinal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presence of blood in the spinal fluid of eleven of the 16, indicating some form of inter-cranial hemorrhage...
...five cases where no bleeding was noted, a marked increase in the globulin content of the spinal fluid was observed...
...monkeys injected with the bloody spinal fluid of victims showed (after one month of observation) no symptoms...
...European girls took apiol, an oily fluid obtained from parsley flowers, as an abortifacient. Both the European apiol and the U. S. ginger extract had been adulterated by viciously shrewd manufacturers with a tricresyl phosphate, newly discovered organic chemical which destroys nerves in the spinal cord (TIME, July 28. 1930). First nerves to go are usually those controlling the muscles of the feet, next those leading to the hands...
...boatload of pirates is punished in silly-symphonic fashion for molesting a collection of sleek mermaids with green tails. Blue fish bombard the pirate boat with caviar which they spit out of their mouths like cannon balls; flying fish, improved to resemble airplanes, take off smoothly from the flat spinal cord of a good-humored whale; octopi wave their arms like the propeller-blades of autogiros and silver swordfish saw down one mast of the pirates' boat. Finally Neptune causes a storm by stirring the water with one hand, thus sinking the pirates' boat which he uses...