Word: spinal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fremont-Smith, assistant professor of Neuropathology at the Medical School, told members of the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Diseases at its annual meeting in New York during the vacation that he had confirmed the belief that the meningitis germ, rather than the white cells in the spinal fluid, consumed sugar present in the fluid. He said that when meningitis is present, there follows a decrease in the sugar content, and when the patient is recovering there is a corresponding, increase...
Died. Gitanillo, famed gypsy bullfighter; of spinal meningitis caused by a wound sustained in the arena; in Madrid...
...recently completed study of relative physiques of past and present college generations, besides being of value to the tailors, reveals definite tendencies worthy of a place in a much larger philosophy than that of mere spinal elongation. The policies of the sexes are evidently divergent, with little fusion, union, or community of spirit. Young men of today stand with much more lofty northwestern exposures than did the mossy and hirsute stumps of their fathers, and the young women have decided to be as brief as fashion allows, yielding no increase in those measurements which, in days not long past, were...
...inherited disease of the brain and spinal cord; cause unknown. The victim's hands, feet and eyes wobble when he tries to use them. Until late stages of the disease, his intelligence is good...
...membership but it was known. By luck he escaped, but his spirit was broken; when the trouble was over he resigned as a Wobbly. But from then on nothing went right. He lost job after job, wages tumbled; first one child, then the other died of spinal meningitis. They would have been evicted from their house if Pearl had not paid a banker in a way Jimmie could not forgive. One day he did not come home from the mill. A buzz-saw had killed...