Word: spinal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cauterizing knife, is as far ahead of scalpel surgery "as the modern electric tram is ahead of the lumbering horse car."-Dr. Howard Atwood Kelly, Baltimore. It permits elegant excision of cancer ramifications and delicate areas of the brain. It may permit operations of the spinal cord. But President-elect Allen Buckner Kanavel, Chicago, pointed out that coagulation caused by the cautery is more likely to scatter malignant growths than to retard or destroy them...
...father started the movement. Daniel David Palmer was a "magnetic healer" who "cured" by laying his hands on innocents. One day a deaf Negro janitor came to him. The deafness had developed when "something broke in his back." Healer Palmer found a protuberance on the Negro's spinal column. He placed the man prone on the floor and knuckled the spine. After the "adjustment" the Negro could again hear, whence a new therapeutic...
...appreciated that all his audience knew what chiropractic is?"a system of adjustment consisting of palpitation of the spinal column to ascertain vertebral subluxations, followed by the adjustment of them by hand, in order to relieve pressure upon nerves at the intervertebra1. foramina so that nerve force may flow freely from the brain to the rest of the body"?more simply, manipulating the spinal column to relieve pressure on the nerves which pass through...