Health Inquiry: Hearings Before the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Eighty-third Congress, First and [-second] Sessions ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1953 - 3151 pages |
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Page 869
... important ap- pendages the nerves of the body , the peripheral nerves , and the sensory organs which provide us with the powers of sight and hearing . As a distinct group of disorders , the neurological and sensory diseases create a ...
... important ap- pendages the nerves of the body , the peripheral nerves , and the sensory organs which provide us with the powers of sight and hearing . As a distinct group of disorders , the neurological and sensory diseases create a ...
Page 870
... important reason is that the nervous system - that is , the brain and spinal cord - are enclosed within a rigid bony envelope- the skull and the spinal bones - which makes exposure difficult and often hazardous . You cannot go chopping ...
... important reason is that the nervous system - that is , the brain and spinal cord - are enclosed within a rigid bony envelope- the skull and the spinal bones - which makes exposure difficult and often hazardous . You cannot go chopping ...
Page 871
... important , gentlemen . If a muscle is cut or if a bone is broken , those tissues grow back , but there has been the classic formula and belief in neurology that once nerve tissue - that is , brain tissue or spinal tissue - is cut ...
... important , gentlemen . If a muscle is cut or if a bone is broken , those tissues grow back , but there has been the classic formula and belief in neurology that once nerve tissue - that is , brain tissue or spinal tissue - is cut ...
Page 876
... important , and I do not recall whether they got anywhere with the experiments , but they made a very interesting incidental observation : That these cats who had their spinal cords cut , cats who should have remained completely ...
... important , and I do not recall whether they got anywhere with the experiments , but they made a very interesting incidental observation : That these cats who had their spinal cords cut , cats who should have remained completely ...
Page 877
... important answer to the question of regeneration in the central nervous system and a great deal of hope for the ... importance of basic research . Here research is going on in a field entirely differ- ent or dissociated from this problem ...
... important answer to the question of regeneration in the central nervous system and a great deal of hope for the ... importance of basic research . Here research is going on in a field entirely differ- ent or dissociated from this problem ...
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Page 995 - Central visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye, with corrective glasses, or central visual acuity of more than 20/200 if there is a field defect in which the peripheral field has contracted to such an extent that the widest diameter of visual field subtends an angular distance no greater than 20 degrees in the better eye.
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