Word: femur
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spiked Hips. The unshapely knob at the top of the thigh bone (femur) is the hip bone. When a person, especially if elderly, falls the knob is apt to break off from the thigh bone. Healing has been a tremendously difficult and painful process. Last year Dr. David Robert Telson of Brooklyn suggested piercing the knob and shaft and lacing them together with stout piano wire. This procedure works to a degree. But the stoutest piano wire gives a little. Last week Dr. Frederick J. Gaenslen of Milwaukee said that he got dependable cures of broken hips by nailing...
Thigh Brace. Ordinarily two months in bed are necessary before a broken thigh is strong enough to walk on. Dr. Roger Anderson of Seattle gets the patient out of bed in two days by drilling one hole in the femur just above the break and a second just below the break. He puts long steel pins through the holes and flesh and attaches steel braces to the pins. The braces prevent the leg from shortening, permit the patient to walk on crutches...
...Healy Building were documents telling how in 1843 Pope Gregory XVI sent Georgetown University the holy bones of three Roman Catholic martyrs. Georgetown had tucked the boxes away without opening them. Out in the daylight for the first time in 91 years the bones-teeth, bits of jaw, tibia, femur-were placed in a handsome new relic room in St. William's Chapel. In each box was a time-yellowed "authentic" identifying the saints whose bones the relics once were: Theophilus, Vincentius and Aelius, pagan Romans who became Christian, were martyred about...
...author of a report on a case of solitary myeloma of the femur treated in the Los Angeles County General Hospital, was a member of its pathology department. Dr. Warren Gamaliel Harding II, 28 (nephew...