Word: spined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nerves in the chest, which stops angina pain without harmful effects; Chicago's Surgeon Jacob P. Greenhill said that a similar operation on abdominal sympathetic nerves often gives permanent relief from pain in cancer of the uterus and other pelvic organs. Also effective: an alcohol injection in the spine...
...simply, we think Hallowe'en is a good time for a good scare. We think it is time for a scare that contracts the most placid muscles of the heart, that creeps along the spine and mingles with the marrow of the bones, that agitates the well-springs of the elemental reflexes...
...most spine-chilling gadget of all-which was demonstrated at the maker's own showrooms farther downtown-was Remington Rand's complete television system for factory use. Called the "Vericon," it will permit a corporation president to see what is going on in any office by a mere flick of the switch...
...Ambassador William C. Bullitt, badly injured in a traffic accident in 1945, went into a Manhattan hospital for a checkup on his spine, possibly an operation...
...anesthesia, men have been trying to defy God's word to Eve. In 1941, Drs. Robert Hingson and Waldo Edwards of the U.S. Public Health Service started experimenting with continuous caudal analgesia-slow injection of a pain-killing drug into the nerve canal at the base of the spine-during labor. Among their first subjects: Coast-guardsmen's wives at Staten Island's Stapleton Marine Hospital...