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...case cited by Dr. Ofeigsson is that of a woman whose whole arm was scalded when she was a child of two. A kinswoman plunged the child's arm into a bucket of cold water, but only up to the elbow. Her hand and forearm healed well and are almost unscarred, whereas the unimmersed upper arm is a mass of scar tissue. Dr. Ofeigsson's rules for first aid in burns covering less than 20% of the body's area...
...maintain life, he could let the poisons pile up in his blood for a few days. Surgeon David Dillard opened an artery and a vein in Ben's left arm and implanted a plastic tube in each. He brought the ends of the tubes out over the forearm, hooked them together to form a bypass that let the blood flow through freely, to prevent clotting. When the small skin wounds healed, physicians connected the tubes to the artificial kidney. This filtered the poisons out of Ben's blood, to give him a few days' lease on life...
...volunteers. "Since we are trying to find the answers to human leukemia, we must make tests in man," said Dr. Schwartz. "And we believed there was a minimum of risk to the prisoners." His research teams injected a leukemia victim's fluid into the prisoners' forearm four times, and twice took a pint of their blood...
Died. Dr. Emil Herman Grubbe, 85, Chicago-born physician and radiation expert who generated X rays soon after Roentgen did in 1895, became the world's first known victim of radiation as it progressively caused cancer in his hands and left forearm, most of his nose, upper lip and jaw; of pneumonia (an indirect result of his cancer); in Chicago, after a lifetime of 93 operations...
...muscles cannot be effectively exercised (as after paralytic polio, when one limb or one side of the body may be affected), it can nevertheless be built up by exercising healthy muscles near by, or the corresponding set on the opposite side. Significant evidence: one subject exercised her left forearm flexor, got a 76% increase in its strength, plus a 20% boost in its antagonist extensor muscle, and an amazing 130% in the unexercised right flexor and 50% in the right extensor...