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...system. Example: a lab assistant who took glassware out of a sterilizer developed blisters on his hands though he felt no heat on handling the bottles. Neurological examination showed no sense of heat or pain in his palms, but other senses were normal. Diagnosis: syringomyelia, a disease of the spinal cord. Its site was located because the neurologists knew that with only the hands affected, the trouble must be where sensory nerves from the palm reach the spinal cord...
Perhaps the most debatable part of the film is the pitiless realism of the direction, which seems to border on the sensational, for instance, a harrowing close-up of a spinal injection, or a most realistic attempted rape...
...call 'a hard death.' " The Thing won out in the end. The haunted family eventually went off to the U.S., and "the gallant clergy, who made such constant efforts on their behalf, seem to have been the worse for it. One priest had a nervous breakdown, another spinal meningitis and the third facial paralysis...
...Mount Vernon, Wash., had officially been reported as resulting from polio, although he had three shots of Salk vaccine (TIME, Dec. 24). More detailed studies of the boy's tissues now show that he died of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, a rare disease of the brain and spinal cord, easily confused with polio. There remains only one 1956 case of a child's death attributed to polio despite triple vaccination, and this is no longer provable...
...fact that his spinal cord entered his skull from below, says Dr. Dart, suggests that prometheus "strode and raced across the veld" on two legs. Most of the remains so far uncovered have been those of a pygmy-sized creature (about 4 ft. high, 100 lbs.), with a brain twice the size of a chimpanzee...