Word: fingerings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Faced with a person who has lost a finger in an accident, most surgeons do little more than sew up the stump -though in some cases they may transplant one of the patient's own fingers, especially to replace a thumb. Russia's Dr. Viktor Kalnberz goes much further...
...sews on a finger taken from a cadaver. In this way, he says, he has restored a remarkable degree of utility to the damaged hands of five patients...
...Riga's Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics, Kalnberz has collected a bank of dead men's fingers, trimmed the skin and soft tissues, refrigerated the remaining bone, ligaments, and ten dons at -70° C. To use one of those severed fingers, the inventive surgeon first pares a strip of skin loose from a patient's abdomen, leaving both ends of the strip still attached to provide a blood supply. The loose part of the strip is rolled around the cadaver bone and sutured in place. After almost a month in the hospital, the patient is sent...
Perhaps it is not all so terrible after all, he continued. "If one is willing to accept the finger-in-the-dike argument in support of any spot of literacy, there is some small justification for every magazine." While waiting for that spot, "we editors shall simply have to endure, talking to ourselves and our faithful little bands of subscribers...
...only attend the funerals of his wife or close blood relatives. Kohanim were expected to be the most perfect of men, and could be disqualified from ministering in the temple for any of 150 physical blemishes, such as a crooked foot or a nose longer than the smallest finger...