Word: limbs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Emanuel Brachfield's broken tibia failed to heal after six months in a cast and several operations, even his doctors began to worry. Reason: if fractured bones do not knit, the affected limb may eventually have to be amputated. Brachfield, 70, a retired New York City office worker, had heard from his physician that doctors at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center were experimenting with a treatment that uses electricity to mend broken bones. He tried it. After eight weeks of electrotherapy, Brachfield has shed cast and crutches and is walking normally again...
...COURSE, some people are naturally conservative; they prefer to avoid taking a position wherever possible. They just don't believe in going out on a limb, when they don't even know the genus of the tree. For these people the vague generality must be junked and replaced by artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...
...victims of such accidents. An off-duty ambulance volunteer, Vincent Cascio, who happened to be near by, ran over and used a belt as a tourniquet to stop the bleeding. Summoned by a radio cab, Police Sergeant Fred Muehling alertly retrieved the leg. Ambulance attendants carefully surrounded the severed limb with cold packs before rushing it and the girl to Smithtown General Hospital...
Because of Elizabeth's youth and the relatively good condition of the wound and leg, a hastily assembled surgical team under Orthopedist Gerald Wertlieb decided to try to rejoin the limb. Though hundreds of amputated fingers, hands and arms have been reattached, such operations on the leg are quite rare, with most successes reported by the Chinese...
Still, the work could be undone by any number of complications, including a blood clot, infection or kidney damage. If the healing continues, the doctors will attempt to rejoin the leg's severed nerve in a few months. Though they conceded that the chances of retaining the limb are only fifty-fifty, they were optimistic. So was Elizabeth, who basked in all the attention and even asked...