Word: spinal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...facing permanent impotence resulting from surgery for cancers in the pelvic region, diabetes, spinal cord injuries or other physical causes-and for those whose problem is psychological in origin and is not helped by therapy-two kinds of penile implants are available. In one operation, which takes about an hour, an incision is made in the penis or just behind the scrotum and a semirigid silicone rod is inserted into each of the corpora cavernosa. Another technique is to implant only one rod between the two structures. The most popular device, developed in 1972 by Urologists Michael Small and Hernan...
Then John Paul did an utterly characteristic thing. Leaving the cathedral, he turned left at the foot of the altar and headed for the only wheelchair in the church and Jane De Martino, 26 paralyzed as the result of an accident that severed her spinal column...
Callahan is listed in "seriously ill and stable" condition at the spinal lesion center of the West Roxbury V.A. Hospital, a hospital spokesman, who refused to comment further, said yesterday...
Mcllroy suffered mightily over the years to satisfy his addiction. He was subjected to thousands of X rays and blood tests, his abdomen was crisscrossed with scars where doctors made incisions during exploratory operations. His spine was punctured 48 times to get spinal fluid in order to check for evidence of cranial hemorrhaging or spinal disorders. "How much Mr. Mcllroy cost the health services," the doctors wrote, "will remain a matter for conjecture. The sum must run into six, possibly seven figures...
Some neuroscientists even foresee the day when these new biochemical tools may be used analytically. Thus it would become possible to diagnose mental illness from a simple blood, urine or spinal fluid sample. Once imbalances in body chemistry are determined, doctors would be able to adjust them by administering the appropriate drugs. Harvard's Dr. Seymour Kety insists that such tactics are far from mind control: "You can't manipulate an individual's behavior in the way the popular mind would like to think." But Northwestern's Routtenberg is not so sure. Says he: "These techniques...