Word: bone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME'S cover story, "The Command Generation," [July 29] is brilliant and penetrating. The writer is knowledgeable and wise . . . and I have a bone to pick with...
Color Test. The VA team went to work last Dec. 7. A sweeping cut through the scalp from behind the left ear to the crown, and then another to the forehead, exposed the skull. Next the surgeons sawed through the bone and lifted a big flap to expose the brain. Then, wielding an electric cautery, they spent one hour and 50 minutes cutting away the diseased hemisphere-from the neocortex, the control center for man's most civilized mental processes, down to the ancient part of the brain, where reflexive and instinctual functions are mediated. The surgeons put nothing...
Since the days when the stethoscope and blood-pressure cuff were the only instruments that most doctors used, medical technology has acquired a huge array of machines - cryoprobes, air-driven bone saws, laser-beam knives, nuclear reactors to irradiate brain tumors. No less troublesome than the complexity of the devices is the lack of standardization: diathermy machines made by two manufacturers for the same purpose have dials calibrated on different scales, so doctors must translate one to the other for comparisons. And there is no assurance that either scale or machine is accurate...
...drive into a stone wall at 15 m.p.h.," says O'Donnell, "the car will be a mess but there won't be much damage to you. If you do that on a motorcycle, you get thrown against the brick wall, which is ruinous to flesh and bone." Since the rider is usually projected headfirst, like a missile, says Manhattan's Dr. Robert H. Kennedy, the most severe and common injuries, those that cause 70% of the deaths, are to the head. A properly designed helmet is essential for cycle safety, but many riders wear inadequate helmets...
Binding usually began when a girl was five years old. Her feet, softened in a broth of monkey bones, were compressed in a bandage two inches wide and ten feet long. The four lesser toes were folded back under the sole, and the front of the foot was drawn back toward the heel until the instep collapsed upward into a grotesque ball of bone. The process sometimes required four years to complete, and during all that time the foot suppurated and the girl lived in punishing pain. Sometimes a child died of gangrene or blood poisoning. At last, the foot...