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There, last week, the twins lay on operating tables placed side by side. Under spinal anesthesia, Leonard watched the surgeons use a dermatome (which looks and sounds like a malignant electric shaver) to remove six strips of skin, each about 3 by 9 inches, from his thighs, and graft them on to Leo's left leg. It took 3½ hours...
Hicks bombarded laboratory rats in the second and third stages of pregnancy with X-rays up to 300 roentgens. The radiation effects caused the rodents' off-spring to be born with defective brains and spinal cords...
Streptomycin quickly proved its value against many forms of tuberculosis, but one of the deadliest held out against the wonder drug: tuberculous meningitis. A particular enemy of children (its bacilli attack the covering of the brain and spinal column), tuberculous meningitis used to mean swift and almost certain death; the few survivors were hopelessly crippled. Now, the U.S. Public Health Service reports, the death rate has been cut almost in half, and the damage to survivors greatly reduced...
...best treatment, doctors now believe, calls for injections of streptomycin into the spinal fluid as well as the muscles. Because some tubercle bacilli develop resistance to the antibiotic, the patients are also given para-aminosalicylic acid (TIME...
...injury is diagnosed as a "dislocation and slight fracture of the third cervical vertebra." "Fortunately," said the doctor, "there was not enough dislocation to cause any pressure on the spinal cord." He will be immobilized in a neck traction for the next three to six weeks...