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Accurately dated (by tree rings) as undoubtedly pre-Columbian is an Indian pueblo from which the Smithsonian Institution got a diseased vertebra. Dr. Tobin's diagnosis: tuberculosis. Another revealing item (because cancer was, and still is, rare among Indians): a pre-Columbian pelvis which showed that its original owner suffered from a spreading carcinoma of the prostate...
Cinemactress Claudette Colbert was having her troubles in Hollywood. In January she slipped on a step and cracked a vertebra. Later, in a brace, she tried to walk downstairs, slipped again and ruptured a disc. Doctors, including her husband, Dr. Joel Pressman, estimated that it would be another month before she could be up & around. Complained Claudette: "If I'd been anybody else, I'd have gone to a doctor. But when you're married to one you hate to bother him with family ailments...
...Team. Husky Doc Reeves looks what he is: an ex-football player. Just short of six feet, he still has a lithe, athletic bearing, no trace of waistline bulge. A broken neck (compression of the fourth cervical vertebra), suffered in the last quarter of his last game as a guard at Midland College at Fremont, still bothers him occasionally and he gets Mrs. Reeves to massage it. To encourage high-school athletics, Dr. Reeves serves (without fee) as physician for the football and basketball teams...
...Franklin Fenenga, archeologist of the University of California (where the cyclotrons grow biggest), has a "rainmaking bag" that once belonged to a 103-year-old Indian medicine man. The bag contains a beaver tail, snapdragon seeds, some eagle down, a fossil fish vertebra, various kinds of pebbles, minerals and other dependable rainmakers. According to a report in the New York Times last week, Dr. Fenenga recently used his bag on Kern County, where there had been no rain for eight months...
Case History. In Pittsburgh, Dr. Frederic T. Mavis swallowed an oyster, changed his mind, tried to go into reverse, dislocated a vertebra and paralyzed his right...