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...Flexner, that infantile paralysis is contracted through the nose, whence the virus passes up the nerve of smell to the brain and spinal cord. In Science last week Dr. Toomey flatly declared: "In the human being the causative agent usually enters the digestive system," whence it passes to the spine by way of sympathetic nerves. According to Dr. Toomey true infantile paralysis is caused by a virus which attacks nerves after a toxin created by the virus makes those nerves vulnerable. The paralysis which Dr. Brodie and other experimenters produce in monkeys, says Dr. Toomey, "is not the kind...
...fear. With fortunate exceptions the instructor fears and resents the department head, who fears and resents the dean, who fears and resents the president, who fears and resents the trustees. Most pedagogs work off their passions in private talk, present smiling exteriors to superiors. But occasionally one stiffens his spine, talks back or speaks out in defiance of tradition, ruling beliefs, sacred cows. Then the volcano is apt to erupt, spew him out. Ready for just such an emergency stands A. A. U. P. with its Committee...
...page is regretfully turned, one's mind travels back o episodes which the author has left indelibly on one's memory. There is nothing sensational or cheap in Mr. Blake's story; he doesn't have to resuscitate bands of wild Indians or buffalo to make his reader's spine tingle with excitement...
...rocks, on the glaring open salt fiats, in the sage country. I shudder to think, of those ugly reptiles coiled and ratting, ready to strike venom into a man's leg and turn his red blood a vivid, poisonous green. And I feel the cold shivers on my spine when I realize that I stepped within a foot of one of them, one that did not strike and did not rattle, but like a silent thing uncoiled at my very feet and crawled toward a hole in a clump of greasewood. I shot it three times and killed...
...past 27 years the Flexner type of serum has been standard treatment for cerebro-spinal meningitis. The doctor sticks a hollow needle into the patient's rigid spine. Out squirts a quantity of the germ-laden cerebro-spinal fluid, which has been imprisoned under pressure. When the squirt slows down the doctor injects the serum...