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...that the treatment can be repeated if pain recurs. Other neurosurgical procedures involve cutting the roots of nerves at the spine to relieve cancer pain in the lower end of the backbone, and cutting or chemically killing the trigeminal nerve in the face to halt the agonizing stabs of tic douloureux, the most agonizing form of neuralgia...
Many neurosurgeons would stay the knife if they could, and are joining with pharmacologists to develop better ways of relieving pain with drugs. As many as 65% of tic douloureux victims can be treated effectively, says Crue, with drugs originally designed to control epileptic seizures. For the relief of severe pain of virtually every kind, morphine and its synthetic analogues remain the most potent drugs known,* but all are highly addicting and need to be taken in stepped-up doses to maintain a constant level of analgesia. Supposedly nonaddicting substitutes are exultantly reported almost every year by research chemists...
...June 1968 - would dearly like to have the job of Chief Justice. While some Senators could probably delay the Goldberg confirmation by filibustering, Senate reaction is generally favorable to the nomination. The question is whether, even at the end of his reign, Johnson is willing to place his domes tic leadership on trial again. At stake is the ideological complexion that the Supreme Court will assume for many years to come...
...erupted and the price soared. Ten times the usual number of buyers jammed the gold pit in the cellar of the Paris Bourse, and fist fights broke out as the price on one day rose to $44.36 an ounce v. the official price of $35. In Hong Kong, fran tic trading drove the price up to $40.71, and around the world investors and banks bought gold certificates and gold stocks. Many refused to accept the U.S. dollar in payment...
...ruthless strongman who imprisoned or murdered his political opponents and all but cut off Guatemala from the outside world. After Estrada's overthrow in 1920 came a series of military-dominated governments that were almost as bad; when Asturias published a set of anti-militaris tic articles, his family persuaded him to move to Europe for his own safety. In 1933, Asturias returned home, became a radio broadcaster, worked on his first novel, then went into the diplomatic service...