Word: spinal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ruth, Philadelphia homeopath, who attended the Congress of Anesthetists in Manhattan last week, recommended alcohol as a pain killer. He traces the sensory nerve leading from the site of the cancer and injects about a cubic centimeter of 45% alcohol near the point where the nerve trunk joins the spinal cord. The alcohol deadens the pain completely, does not interfere with muscular action. One of Dr. Ruth's treatments lasts from three to six months, may be repeated. Dr. Mario Dogliotti of Turin, Italy, told the anesthetists that he gets similar benefits by injecting seven to 15 drops...
...against Coe College (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) he said that in October 1929 he was required "without physical examination and without the consent of his parents" to enter a cross-country run in a dual meet with Cornell College (Mt. Vernon, Iowa). Student Groh ran until exhausted, fell, hurt his spinal column. For four months he was in a hospital. He was given blood transfusions, bone from his leg was grafted into his spine. Student Groh went back to Coe, stayed until a year ago. Now a resident of Los Angeles, he was obliged to return to the hospital for more...
...lungs are expanded because the ribs rise & fall and the diaphragm ascends & descends. The muscles which operate the ribs and diaphragm are controlled, through the agency of nerves, by the respiratory centre in the lower brain, which needs carbon dioxide for stimulation. (Infantile paralysis often injures the spinal cord nerves which go to muscles used in respiration. In certain cases the injured nerves may regenerate, while the victim's life is maintained in a respirator...
Died. Charles Livingston Bull, 57, animal painter, naturalist, taxidermist, friend and exploring colleague of the late Carl Akeley, Roy Chapman Andrews, William Beebe; as the result of a spinal injury received several years ago; in Oradell, N. J. Theodore Roosevelt once said: "Bull is the only man who can put legs on four sides of an animal and make it look natural...
...inventing a way of seeing nerves grow in a live tadpole's tail. He clamped an embryonic frog under his microscope and indirectly illuminated the tail by a method called "dark field lighting." Thus over periods of weeks he was able to see that nerves branch out from the spinal cord and spread, like the roots and branches of a plant, into all parts of the body. His lighting method also enabled him to see that a cut nerve cannot be spliced and made to function again. New nerve material must grow out from the root, repair the damage...