Word: spinal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...special specialty of Dr. Byron Polk Stookey, Manhattan surgeon who fortnight ago suggested that gasoline filling stations be equipped as first-aid stations for highway accidents (TIME, Nov. 9), is surgery of the brain and spinal cord. To Neurosurgeon Stookey has come many a case of paralysis rendered incurable by ignorant handling of the patient at the scene of the accident. Hoping to prevent such needless damage. Dr. Stookey this week issued new pictures (see cuts) and advice which first-aid manuals, including that of the Boy Scouts, lack...
...chiropractic permitted him to do practically everything to the human body except dose it with drugs or alter it by major surgery. To establish this belief in law, Chiropractor McGranaghan, having pretended he was sick, sued another, friendly chiropractor, Dora Berger, for refusing to give him anything more than spinal adjustment within the letter of the law. Chiropractor Berger behaved properly, decided the court, ruling against Chiropractor-Patient McGranaghan. Lawyer McGranaghan appealed...
With this spinal cord of a narrative to hold it together, Kit Brandon is less diffuse than Sherwood Anderson's earlier novels, and Kit's candid puzzlement lacks the somewhat forced naïveté that weakened Beyond Desire and Dark Laughter. Sometimes the author intrudes with speculations about machinery, forest conservation, unemployment, strikes, the TVA, but his interruptions are brief and often effective. "The reader should bear in mind," he says simply, in describing Kit's marriage, "that Kit Brandon was and is a real person, a living American woman. How much of her real story...
...imported to Rockland County, handed a skull and other bones found on Cheesecock Mountain and asked to solve the mystery of its presence there. Sterilizing the skull, he placed it on an artificial neck made out of a curtain pole shaved down to fit the opening of the spinal column. Inside the skull on either side of the pole, he wedged two radio tubes to hold the head steady. The other end of the pole he fitted in a stand made of a soap...
...dullwitted, unable to feed herself. A sample of fluid from her spine showed traces of blood. Her doctors concluded that a blood-filled tumor had developed on the outer layer of the brain. The skull was trephined, clotted blood removed from the left side of the cranial cavity, bloody spinal fluid from the right. Later, the patient seemed like a person with no brain at all. Bedridden, apathetic, twitching spasmodically, she died...