Word: boned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are five different ways to break a leg. They range all the way from a "greenstick" fracture, where the bone is cracked half through and split longitudinally, to a compound fracture, where the shattered bone juts through the skin. No matter what the break, treatment is always the same: first setting and immobilization, then proper exercise...
Griswold has been puttering away at bone carpentry, improving fracture methods that were developed during World War I. He has patched hundreds of broken legs-with hammer and nails...
...painless, but it looks bad. First a patient's leg is anesthetized. Then two long steel pins, one-eighth of an inch thick, are hammered through the leg, above and below the fracture. A small steel mallet is used, and the pins are driven directly through flesh & bone, protruding about an inch on either side...
...Griswold machine"-a 20th-century model of the rack. The pins are connected on both sides to a kind of caliper and the leg is gently stretched until the two broken ends snap into place. While a surgeon "reduces" the fracture, his assistant watches the bone through a fluoroscope to make sure the ends are fitted. The leg stays in the machine...
...Cardinals' famed Gashouse Gang. Once, when he threw a ball during a game, yards of bandage unraveled from his hand. Manager Frisch stopped the game, learned to his amazement that Martin was playing with a broken finger. "Aw," said Pepper, "it's only a small bone." He horrified the Cardinals' President Sam Breadon by playing football and racing midget autos in off hours...