Word: spined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Some sharp object had ripped through an aviator from the spine nearly to the navel. He was near death when he arrived at the hospital 20 minutes later. In two hours, surgeons gave him twelve units of plasma and ten pints of blood. Two months later the captain saw him in a West Coast hospital and he "looked pretty good...
Riding in jeeps, touring in tanks and taking the bumps of basic training have caused such an increase in pilonidal-cyst disorders that some doctors call them jeep disease. Cause: an infection of a congenital cyst at the base of a man's spine. Chief symptom: it hurts to sit down...
...have certain theories we go by. After that there is the Jesus factor - the unpredictable." Each new objective has its peculiar problem. The Marshall Islands differ from Guadalcanal, which is an 80-mile long island with a great jungle-covered spine and coconut groves, jungles and grassy flatlands along its shores. No coral reefs guard its coast. The Marshalls, like the Gilberts, are ancient atolls - coral reefs ringing irregularly around blank and limpid lagoons. On the reef, like beads in a necklace, are occasional land masses of coral sand, large enough to support airfields and artillery installations. Hot and waterless...
...morphine and atropine to ease his pain and keep him quiet. In a few minutes he was so restless that his arms and legs had to be strapped to the stretcher. X-rays showed that he had only a compression fracture of one vertebra in the middle of his spine...
...Mackenzie, who reported the case in the British Medical Journal, believe that the paratrooper survived because he landed on one foot and fell sideways-the landing technique which U.S. experts now warn against. Nevertheless, this prevented the full force of his landing from being transmitted through his legs and spine to the base of his skull...