Word: legging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that of Ward B. Myers, 38, who was supervising a construction job in Port Angeles, Wash., when his right foot was mashed in a boring machine. The foot became infected, causing osteomyelitis, and surgeons in Seattle's Swedish Hospital spent almost a year trying to save the leg. Myers endured twelve operations and almost constant pain-"like a toothache, it just kept pounding away." Early last month Dr. Ernest M. Burgess, whose team has had more experience with instant prostheses than any other U.S. surgeons, decided that the time had come to amputate Myers' leg...
Next day the peg leg was inserted in the socket and Myers was helped to his feet. He felt only a little discomfort, and on the second day no pain at all. Within ten days he was walking to the barber shop, several blocks away; the next week the surgeons removed the stitches and snapped a new socket snugly to the stump, which had never been appreciably swollen. With this temporary rig, Myers went dancing. Last week orthopedic engineers machined a permanent artificial leg on which Myers wears an ordinary shoe, and he walks well without canes...
...other complications of confinement. Psychologically, the method works wonders because patients do not spend weeks feeling mutilated and despondent. Since rehabilitation begins within 24 hours, the amputee has no time to get into the habit of helplessness. Some children scarcely realize that they have a new and different leg, so they try to run down the halls in a couple of days...
Friday afternoon in Philadelphia, hampered by a cold, blustery wind, the Crimson distance medley quartet of Troy Burns, Jeff Huvelle, Bob Stempson, and Jim Baker, finished sixth in a strong field that included Georgetown and Villanova. Burns however, whipped through his half-mile leg in 1:52, while Baker ran the anchor mile in a quick...
Several of the Crimson's entrants in Philadelphia Friday flew back to New England and took first places in Saturday's meet. Jeff Huvelle led a Harvard sweep in the 440, winning in 48.6 seconds, the best time of his career. He also ran the second leg on the winning mile relay team...