Word: spinal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impatient sufferers (many of them dying), the good news came none too soon. Penicillin (sometimes rhymes with villain, sometimes with whistle in) is the best treatment for all staphylococcic infections, all hemolytic streptococcic infections, pneumococcic infections (of the lining of skull, spinal cord, lung and heart surfaces), pneumococcic pneumonia that sulfa drugs will not cure, all gonococcic infections (including all gonorrhea that sulfa drugs will not cure). Diseases against which penicillin is effective but not fully tested: syphilis, actinomycosis, bacterial endocarditis...
...immediate lesson of his group's experiment is "that there is much more capacity for response to brain injury than previously thought." The same conclusion has been reached by researchers who have regenerated nerve fibers in other parts of animals' brains as well as in their spinal cords. At Saint Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C., for instance, Neuroscientist William Freed has treated rats with fetal cell implants to relieve symptoms resembling Parkinson's disease in humans. The implanted cells are capable of producing dopamine, a vital brain chemical lacking in the afflicted rats and in Parkinson...
...only question: Why had Kittle hit so poorly in the Dodger organization? The answer was that he had a broken neck. That is, without realizing it, he had two crushed vertebrae that pinched a nerve in his neck and numbed his right arm. On his own he underwent a spinal fusion in 1978. How Kittle was injured is still unknown. "But it must have been playing baseball," he says, "because I don't remember being hit by a car." This is how he talks...
...their two sons, Michael, 6, and Eric, 4, are plucked from their ordinary lives of Star Wars, shopping malls and Sunday school. In Houston's huge and hectic Tex as Children's Hospital, Eric, comforted by a Han Solo toy, endures daily blood drawings from his hands, spinal taps, radiation and chemotherapy. Although ravaged by treatment, the boy adapts better than his father. "His stomach protruding, his head bald," writes the horrified Pringle, "he now believes he looks just like his grandfather...
WHILE DOING research surgery on a rat recently, I had the unsettling experience of seeing the rat begin to move its rear leg. This reaction is common to animals under anaesthetic: it results from reflexes at the level of the spinal cord rather than conscious awareness of pain. I knew I had used the proper dose of anaesthetic, but I was disturbed nonetheless. I couldn't help imagining what it would be like to experience such surgery without anaesthesia...