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Word: spondulix (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Association for Medico-Physical Research, a society organized in 1911 by the outstanding quack of the century, Albert Abrams. The organization was an outgrowth of the American Association for Spondylo-therapy, the term 'spondylo' referring to the spine and not to the good old American word 'spondulix.' In this peculiar organization are assembled some of the conspicuous exploiters of borderline medicine in this benighted land. For example, in 1925 the chairman of the section on radiology was Mr. George S. Foden, a practitioner of electronic medicine, who read a paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Borderline Medicine | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

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