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...country club swimming pool in St. Louis appeared Ray Woods, the professional high-diver who four months ago fractured his spine in a 187-ft. dive off the San Francisco-Oakland Bridge (TIME, April 5). He could swim with his arms but his legs are still useless...
...These findings," said this doctor of medicine who was converted when an osteopath cured him of colitis, "check with the fact that minor accidents are a common cause of sterility in women. Hunting field accidents frequently lead to subsequent sterility. The spine is liable to become twisted when women ride sidesaddle. In badminton and tennis, it is very easy to produce an osteopathic lesion. A badly done swallow [U. S.: swan] dive may have similar results. Overindulgence in sports and the craze for speed are in a general way favorable to barrenness. . . . Quite frequently a patient consults an osteopath...
...adjunct of the University of Oregon medical school. There the blonde little caricature of motherhood underwent an X-ray examination a fortnight ago. This revealed to the dumbfounded staff of the hospital that Barbara Stobie was indeed carrying a child. Plainly visible were part of its bony skull, spine, arms, legs...
...Stobie was delivered of this monstrosity. As an artist and photographers recorded the scene, Surgeon Clarence William Brunkow made a seven-inch incision from the tip of her breast bone past the left of her navel. Lying horizontally within her abdomen, between the top of her stomach and her spine, was a skin-like sac. Segments of Barbara's bowels were fastened to this...
...name to the telegram of congratulations had wished him luck. "I'll need it," said he. "They should have sent me their sympathy." Jarred to its sacroiliac by the skull-thumping sock of the Supreme Court decision in the Watson v. Associated Press case (TIME, April 19), the spine of U. S. newspaper publishing ached last week...