Word: bone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Major General Sickles promptly had his eg packed carefully in a coffinlike box and ent it, with his formal calling card bear ing the legend "Compliments of D.E.S.." to the new Army Medical Museum in Washington. After pathologists had ex-mined the specimen, the bone was preserved. For years, on the anniversary of he amputation. Peg Leg Sickles went to visit his missing member, often taking friends to join in the macabre ceremony...
Bits & Pieces. Last week, as the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology celebrated :he centennial of its founding as the Army Medical Museum, tourists still admired an Sickles' leg. They could also gape at a lock of Lincoln's hair, a bone sliver from his skull, and bullet-shattered vertebrae from Assassin John Wilkes Booth and President James A. Garfield. But pathology, the study of disease processes, has far outgrown the two rear rooms above the Riggs Bank that first housed the Army Medical Museum. The institute, which is a combined effort of all three armed forces, now serves...
...floors of the Library will provide a physicians' reading room for members of the Massachusetts Medical Society, the editorial offices of the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, and a suite devoted to a collection of rare medical books...
...fever persisted; but only on the promise that it would be a short stay was Mrs. Roosevelt persuaded to go into Manhattan's famed Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. There, a specimen of Mrs. Roosevelt's bone marrow-the body's main factory for various elements in the blood-was taken by puncturing a hipbone with a big hypodermic needle. The hematologists who examined the marrow smears under the micro scope could not agree. Though there were enough cells present to rule out aplastic anemia, one of the deadliest forms of the disease, some of the experts thought...
About a week before she died, a culture inoculated with Mrs. Roosevelt's bone marrow produced the bacilli of tuberculosis. This was almost certain proof that TB had been the mysterious and stubborn lung infection, and an immediate cause of her fever. Most of the dozens of doctors called in on the case agreed that in patients of Mrs. Roosevelt's age, it is not unusual to find the blood-forming mechanism out of kilter in some obscure fashion. And in anybody as determined to keep going as she was, it was not surprising that TB germs (which...