Word: spinal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Doctors who use spinal anesthesia freely got a sharp warning last week from Manhattan's famed Neurologist Foster Kennedy. Reporting, with two colleagues, on cases seen recently at Bellevue Hospital, Dr. Kennedy described several kinds of paralysis resulting from damage to the spinal cord during anesthesia...
Often, the doctors contended in Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, the damage appears long after the operation, so it is not traced to its cause and seldom gets into the statistics of spinal anesthesia's harmful side effects...
...virus of poliomyelitis, one of the smallest disease-causing organisms, is less than a millionth of an inch long. Trying to follow this minute invader as it attacks the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord has long been a baffling problem for polio researchers. Last week two Yalemen, Drs. Joseph L. Melnick and John B. LeRoy, told how they had used the electron microscope to study this microcosmic warfare-with surprising results...
...years went by there was nothing more that anyone could do. Polio would still not release him from its deadly grip. A spinal curvature developed and gradually worsened. The ravages of kidney stones sapped his disease-ridden body. His strength was almost gone. Last week, after Birdsall Sweet, 32, was finally released from 18 years and seven months in his iron lung, Dr. Smith performed his last, sad service. On the death certificate he wrote: "Acute nephritis due to chronic kidney stones due to poliomyelitis...
From the prison records, Ellis gets the condemned man's height and weight, then computes the distance the victim must drop to meet the legal requirement that three cervical vertebrae be fractured or dislocated to snap the spinal cord and bring quick death. Ellis does not see the prisoner until a few minutes before the hanging when he steps into the death cell, quietly says "good morning" and straps the man's arms behind his back...