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...Birthday." In 1916 he was called to active duty, sent to France as a second lieutenant. Diefenbaker's military career was painfully anticlimactic. Soon after landing in France, he suffered a spinal injury in a back-of-the-lines accident that to this day he embarrassedly refuses to describe. He spent four months in a hospital, was sent home and discharged. Back at the University of Saskatchewan, he shot through law school in one year, and during the summer of 1919 he hung up his brand-new diploma in a 9-ft.-by-9-ft. office...
...marked by near-total loss of muscle control. (It happens when the myelin sheath, a fatty insulation around nerve pathways, degenerates for unknown reasons, thus short-circuiting nerve signals.) Philadelphia Bacteriologist Rose Ichelson, 59, reported success in cultivating an obscure microbe, Spirochaeta myelophthora, which she has found in the spinal fluid of MS victims. Inference: multiple sclerosis is caused by the spirochete, and early attack on it should lead to cure or alleviation...
Takahashi injected 2 cc. of anesthetic into Ohmura's spinal column, and Ohmura gave himself a local anesthetic. Then the nurse handed the patient a scalpel. Squinting belly wards, without the aid of a mirror, slender (137 Ibs.) Dr. Ohmura made a 2-in. vertical incision, helped Takahashi suture the blood vessels. Then, said Ohmura, he sliced into the abdominal muscle, proceeding "exactly as with several hundred appendectomies I have performed." The pain caused by his own finger probing into the wound made him feel faint, but Ohmura fished out the diseased appendix anyway, then "with sweat rolling down...
...four weeks, at a husky $3,500 a point, Greenwich Village Artist Jim Snodgrass, 34, and Medical Research Consultant Hank Bloomgarden, 28, both answered correctly a ten-point question on European royalty, then went for the tough eleven-pointer: Name the five groups of bones in the human spinal column (see diagram). A onetime pre-med student, Snodgrass began with a noun, "sacrum," was ruled out by M.C. Jack Barry, whose answer card listed the adjective "sacral." Then Bloomgarden ticked off "sacral," "cervical," "thoracic," "lumbar" and "coccyx," was abruptly ruled correct and the winner of the $73,500 at stake...
...McClellan reached again for family happiness and stability. They were beyond him. In North Africa, during World War II, Corporal Max McClellan-Eula's son-came down with a back ailment. Doctors neglected him, his Army superiors accused him of goldbricking-until he. like Lucille McClellan, died of spinal meningitis. John and Max had never been close, which made the boy's death all the more painful. Says a close family friend: "Max was raised in a broken home, and John felt bad about that. He felt he had let Max down...