Word: spinal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under a hot lamp in the green-tiled operating room, the patient lay masked and draped in white. Only a six-inch patch of iodine-stained abdomen was exposed. Although numbed below the waist by a spinal anesthetic, he could hear everything that was going...
...constructed, the spinal column was not supposed to be that of a man walking erect. Therefore, it is considerable strain for human beings to stand as they do, and any further deviation from the posture which is now considered normal is likely to produce backache," he said...
...shivering in an unheated room, waiting for the moment when their mother lighted a brief wood fire and cooked their one meal of corn bread; a mother and eight children living in one room in the house of a friend; a nine-year-old boy, stricken last year with spinal meningitis, without underwear, clothed only in a cotton blouse, a pair of pants; a mother recovering from childbirth, still confined to her bed, living on black coffee and cereal...