Word: spinal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even the unusual manner of his execution-by internal severance of an artery following spinal anaesthesia-testified to Old 81st's greatness. Veterinarians chose this method as the one most likely to keep alive enough semen for a few more calves. Failing to find it, they buried the body under the elms of the Turner ranch. As the greatest sire in Hereford history, Old 81st had already provided the epitaph for the bronze tablet that will mark his grave...
...working men should permit vigilantes [i.e., the Congress] to trample down their liberties and the American way of life. . . . It is going to require a lot of courage and a lot of action to forestall the enslavement of the N.A.M.-Taft-Hartley bill. Those whose wishbone is where their spinal column ought to be will fall by the wayside...
...certain types of T.B.-pulmonary (lung), miliary (small spots that may scatter through the body) and meningeal (brain and spinal cord)-streptomycin seemed to help. A few patients were completely cured, many of them gained weight and felt better during the four months' treatment. But in most patients the disease remained active; many infections developed resistance to the drug; the death rate was still high (up to 90% in some forms of the disease). And on many types of T.B. the drug had no appreciable effect at all. Most discouraging finding of all was that streptomycin, in the doses...
Chiropractors (not to be confused with osteopaths, who often have medical degrees and base their treatments on correcting faulty body structure) still work on Founder Palmer's theory that most human ills derive from "subluxations" (dislocations) of the spinal column. Their treatment: "adjustment" (manipulation) of the spine, offered as a cure-all for a wide range of ailments, from scarlet fever to stomach ulcers...
...third case did not surprise doctors; death was due to a spinal cord injury...