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...swollen and puffed up; I looked like a Frankenstein monster," complained Astrologer-Author Sybil Leek, recalling her visit to South Carolina last November. Scheduled to address a convention of auto executives, Sybil had stopped by the Hilton Head Inn pool beforehand "for a few deep breaths of good air." The seer failed to see a stream of gas from a rusty chemical cylinder, however, and instead of air, inhaled some escaping chlorine. The result, says Astrologer Leek, was a case of chemical pneumonia, a four-day hospital stay and two months of severe headaches. Forgoing mystical incantations, the astrologer last...
...addition to his powerful mechanical legs and zoom-lens artificial eye, television's Six Million Dollar Man has an atomic-powered arm that can knock down walls, lift cars and pull out trees by the roots. Reid Hilton's new arm is only slightly less remarkable−and considerably less expensive. Hilton, 24, a Santa Ana, Calif., karate expert who lost his right arm below the elbow in an accident, will probably not risk smashing bricks with his experimental $40,000 replacement. But the prosthesis should enable him, with practice, to function like a man with two natural...
...Hilton's 8-lb. myoelectric (from the Greek myos, for muscle) arm was developed at Northwestern University and modified by engineers and researchers at the medical-products division of General Atomic and at Rancho Los Amigos, a hospital associated with the University of Southern California. The arm, which can be fitted with either a hook or a normal-looking hand, does not look much different from other powered prostheses. But the similarities are only skin deep. Most artificial arms use a system of receivers on the surface of the skin and microtransmitters under the skin to carry messages from...
...median and ulnar nerves with stainless-steel coils, and wired the third button to another carbon plug that serves as a ground. They then connected all buttons to wires in the prosthesis itself, linking them to sensors in the hand. To operate the arm and its hand properly, Hilton moves his remaining arm muscles selectively; their contractions produce electrical impulses that, transmitted to the prosthesis, open and close his hand...
Doctors believe it will be at least five years before arms like Hilton's become generally available, and concede that further modifications may still have to be made in their prototype. They hope eventually to bring the cost of the device within reach of other amputees (Hilton's arm, without research and development expenses, would cost about $1,200). Meanwhile, Hilton is demonstrating that the prosthesis is practical; he is learning how to pick up small objects, open cigarette packages and tie his own shoes. He is also learning to be careful, especially when handling delicate objects...