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...problems and turmoil did not really matter. If you cut into a Brick or a Jeremy (and there was constant cutting; men and children in the serials were fatally susceptible to plot-advancing ailments), you found only a dense, featureless white substance, like the inside of a potato. Spinal meningitis did not really hurt the potato husbands who incurred it, but it gave the overworked young potato doctor (generally called Hank, sometimes Mike) a chance to say, wearily, brushing a shock of coal-black hair from his eyes, that he was sorry, he had done all he could...
...clamorous dismay of a musical world that has hailed her as La Stupenda, Coloratura Joan Sutherland, 35, announced that she would have to suspend her operatic career for up to six months because of a two-year-old spinal disk ailment. Though she stoically plans to complete her current Covent Garden contract and the spring season at La Scala in a steel-ribbed corset, the strapping, handsome Australian will have to abandon a scheduled summer tour of her native land to undergo medical treatment in her Swiss villa. "Only when that is finished," said she, "can I make any decision...
...Love and Veterinarian Jungherr. a 24-year-old lab worker came down with a bewildering variety of symptoms after going to work as a monkey handler, developed a polio-like stiffness of the neck and died. The autopsy showed that monkey virus B had spread through his lungs, heart, spinal cord and brain...
Died. William Ellsworth Hoy, 99, baseball's oldest former major leaguer who between 1888 and 1902 played for the Washington Senators, Cincinnati Reds and Chicago White Sox; of a stroke; in Cincinnati. Deafened when two years old by spinal meningitis, Hoy did not learn to speak till his wife taught him at 36, retained a lifelong preference for sign language, and in the blunt innocence of a bygone age was affectionately dubbed "Dummy" by his teammates...
Even the softest mattress and smooth est linen are rough on patients burned so extensively that they cannot rest in any position without lying at least partly on a burned area; the healing, moreover, is much delayed. Another big class of patient that yearns for levitation is the spinal paralysis victim who gets bedsores. So the University of London's Orthopedic Surgeon John T. Scales got the idea of supporting patients...