Word: sciatica
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...Smuts was to start a 5,000-mile tour of South Africa for other celebrations-notably to receive the keys of a cottage built for him on the slopes of Table Mountain by the people of Capetown. Then illness interfered: he was bedded with a recurrence of the sciatica he first developed while mountain-climbing several months...
Recovered from a bout with sciatica, which she regarded as a "bore," Queen Mary was up at 8:30 as usual on her 83rd birthday, read many of the thousands of letters and telegrams that poured into Marlborough House, London. At noon she rode in her green Daimler to Buckingham Palace for the customary birthday luncheon. All in all, it was a busy week. A few days before her birthday, she showed up at the Chelsea Flower Show at Royal Hospital, was helped across a muddy stream (see cut). The day after her busy birthday, she took in the Derby...
...first time since she came down with a bad case of sciatica in February, Queen Mary, 82, had a little outing: she was driven around in her green Daimler to see the crocuses in the parks near her home at Marlborough House...
...found another painkiller. In a recent issue of the British Medical Journal, Drs. W. M. Wilson and R. B. Hunter of Edinburgh described tests on a new "analgesic" called C.B. II (short for 4:4 -diphenyl -6 -morpho-linoheptan-3-one hydrochloride). It has eased pain from heart disease, sciatica, gangrene, pleurisy, other notorious pain causers. So far no serious disadvantages have shown up. Apparently the drug is not habit-forming...
...reminds one of the U.S. during Prohibition," wrote one independent M.P. to the London Times. The regional petroleum office in the Midlands reported a religious revival, with thousands wanting gas to drive to churches more than two miles from their homes. Many a motorist felt new pangs of rheumatism, sciatica, or old war wounds which made it quite impossible for him to walk to the nearest...