Word: spinal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Lou Gehrig, 38, "Iron Man of Baseball"; in Manhattan. Stricken two years ago with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (hardening of the spinal cord), the great, clean-living, slugging Yankee first baseman, son of a German-born janitor, had hung up the all-round record of baseball: 2,130 consecutive games (for 14 years he played in every Yankee game); more than 100 runs a year; a lifetime batting average...
Noted Roentgenologist Cornelius Gysbert Dyke supervised X-rays as Pandora whiffed ether. Next day Pandora was brought back for more tests. The Institute's chief, Tracy Putnam, himself tapped Pandora's spinal cord, drew fluid for tests. On the electroencephalograph, which records brain impulses as clues to tumors or other disturbances, Pandora flopped: her too-thick skull thwarted doctors looking for variations in the alpha, beta and delta waves...
...medicos then performed a pneumo-encephalomyelogram, in which spinal fluid is withdrawn, replaced with oxygen little by little; then took X-rays. In such X-rays the oxygen outlines the brain ventricles, indicates the presence of growths. But Pandora's brain showed none. The famed specialists scratched their heads, brooded, figured, studied smears on slides. Next afternoon, the sick panda, far from the Western Heavens of Szechwan, the nine sacred mountains, the flying horses and the golden monkeys and the citizens with tails, slept quietly under a drug when death, as it must to all animals, came to Pandora...
...theory: A person may harbor the poliomyelitis virus in his spinal cord without feeling more than a headache, stiff neck, sick stomach. If he lies down and takes care of himself, the disease may pass off without trouble. But if he plays ball, goes swimming or hiking, the virus may spread throughout huge numbers of spinalcord cells, causing paralysis...
...TIME showing eight labor mad dogs beating one worker must have stirred the blood of every person who saw it. The wielder of what appears to be an iron rod [it was a child's baseball bat-ED.] seems to be aiming for the victim's spinal column with a blow backed by all his strength...