Word: spinal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Swedenborg, inventor of a mercury air pump, a stove, an ear trumpet, believer in the feasibility of airplanes, submarines, machine guns, investigator of the brain, spinal cord and ductless glands, was ahead of his time in nearly every scientific field. He believed he talked with angels and spirits, made excursions through Heaven and Hell, received a revelation of the Second Coming of Christ. Though he spent nearly 30 years before his death (date of which he predicted accurately in a letter to Methodist John Wesley) in writing theological works in Latin, he had no intention of founding a church...
...Sixty-five thousand people are totally deaf; 75,000 more are deaf & dumb; 200,000 lack a hand, arm, foot or leg; 300,000 have permanent spinal injuries; 500,000 are blind; 1,000,000 more are permanent cripples...
...task of raising funds fell largely to his frail widow. Tirelessly, in spite of a spinal ailment that made exertion difficult, she has since toured the U. S., giving concerts (she is a good pianist), talking, gleaning contributions to keep the MacDowell Colony going. During the past 30 years she has succeeded in personally raising some $100,000. The Colony has grown, occupies today some 500 acres sprinkled with isolated cottages, with room for 50 artists each summer. A list of those who have benefited by its hospitality at one time or another, reads like...
...help Columnist Alexander raise money for expensive operations to save 12-year-old Truman Jr., an infantile paralysis victim. By last week the raid of 1919 had ended well for all concerned: Writer Alexander had received $1,500 from the Satevepost; 90-lb. Buddy Alexander, after two excruciating spinal operations and a blood transfusion from his father, was in a Manhattan hospital, encased in 125 pounds of plaster, grinning and beginning a recovery scheduled to take a year; and the ex-Kaiser was still safe in Holland...
...examination of the spinal fluid showed a normal cell count and protein content as well as a negative Wassermann reaction. The diagnosis of Disseminated Sclerosis of the Spinal Cord was made and concurred in by two eminent London neurologists. Unfortunately a post mortem examination was not permitted...