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They rarely give barbiturates (like allonal) because those drugs rarely quiet a drunk and do depress his circulation. They never give morphine, because that drug increases pressure on the brain and brings on death. They reduce intracranial pressure by draining fluid through a puncture in the spine. Most men who die in delirium tremens die because their hearts give way. Drs. Piker & Cohn prevent that by loading the patient with digitalis. Digitalis, besides being a heart regulator, is a diuretic, something the raving drunkard requires. In delirium tremens the digestive system is out of whack. Drs. Piker & Cohn wash...
...accepting "blame" because he had been kidnapped by one of his subordinates (TIME, Jan. 4 et ante}. In return politeness the rest of the Nanking Government besought Chiang Kaishek to take back his resignations, but stories were getting about that he had sprained the base of his spine, or anyhow one of his legs, while kidnapped, that he had to take a long rest, that his brother-in-law T. V. Soong* was going to be Premier of China...
Died. Sir Edwin Deller, 53, principal of the University of London; of a broken spine received on an inspection trip of the University's new Bloomsbury buildings when a construction elevator fell on him; in London...
...American Medical Association called "the outstanding quack . . . the most polished charlatan ... of the century." Abrams made lasting contributions to the science of medicine by discovering that when the skin of the chest is irritated, the heart and lungs contract slightly. He also discovered that a clout on the spine may reduce a disabling bulge in the aorta. On the other hand, Abrams claimed without acceptable evidence that the human body was an electrochemical machine which produced certain vibrations when healthy, certain other vibrations when sick. He claimed that he could diagnose specific diseases by means of a machine which resembled...
Four years after the operation she tripped, fell 20 ft. down a stairway. Soon she grew apathetic, dullwitted, unable to feed herself. A sample of fluid from her spine showed traces of blood. Her doctors concluded that a blood-filled tumor had developed on the outer layer of the brain. The skull was trephined, clotted blood removed from the left side of the cranial cavity, bloody spinal fluid from the right. Later, the patient seemed like a person with no brain at all. Bedridden, apathetic, twitching spasmodically, she died...