Word: vertebrae
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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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...