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Cutting the Nerve. There was little they could do for the arteriosclerosis, but for the trouble in the right leg there was a palliative: cutting some of the sympathetic nerves (near the spine) which control the contraction of leg arteries. The nerve operation was helpful, and the King started to get around again as well as ever...
Eleven miles from the Red Head cemetery, Dr. Orr found a burying place of still another unknown people whom he calls the "Black Bottoms." Instead of sitting upright with their skulls colored red, the 129 skeletons were lying on their sides, with the bones of the lower spine and pelvis colored black...
...second night finishing the reconstruction of Emily Kaye. The resulting "masterpiece" helped to send her murderer to the gallows-where Sir Bernard, quiet and efficient as ever, was on hand to perform the official post-mortem and confirm that death had resulted from dislocation of the murderer's spine "between the fourth and fifth cervical vertebrae...
...years of fund-raising and fact-finding on the mysterious crippler. Of $813,000 raised, one-fourth has been used to educate both doctors and laymen in the ways of multiple sclerosis; $388,000 has gone into research. So far, nobody knows what causes the nerve sheaths in the spine and brain to degenerate, so that nerves become useless. But Manhattan's Neurological Institute is working on the possibility of an allergic origin for the disease; Tulane University is checking the viruses as possible culprits...
Guido Corini had less reason than most to be happy about World War II and its aftermath. An Allied bullet left his spine permanently and painfully deformed. An air raid killed his wife and only child. The best peacetime job he could find at 42 was that of broom-wielder and errand boy in a Milanese gas appliance factory. Guido's fellow workers left him strictly alone after finding that their most innocent remarks evoked a tirade of resentful acrimony. His bosses found him sullen. They would have fired Guido long ago had not Plant Director Luigi Daniele insisted...