Word: marrow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...confused with more conventional metal splints which are attached outside, the nail is driven into the marrow of the bone. In cases of broken femurs, the surgeon first manipulates the thigh to bring the broken pieces of bone together, using a fluoroscope to see what he is doing. Then, through a one-inch incision in the hip over the end of the bone, he rams a guide wire down through the bone's marrow canal. He slips the hollow, stainless-steel nail over the wire, hammers it in the full length of the bone, pulls out the wire...
Spleen Serum. The serum is extracted from the blood of horses which have been injected with spleen cells and bone marrow from young, healthy persons who have died by accident. "It is not an elixir of long life," insisted Bogomolets last week, "but something that fights the enemies of longer life-cancer and high blood pressure." (It is too potent for some people, and Dr. Bogomolets himself is one of those who cannot be treated: his heart is too weak for an ACS fillip...
...Bernard Marrow...
...politics, Chifley has not lost his capacity for hard work or his liking for the dark suits all Australian engine drivers seem to wear off duty. As wartime Treasurer, he and his wife set Australians an example in austerity by living on $8 a week. A bone-&-marrow union man, he regards capitalists as "ordinary blokes" who will embrace socialism of their own free will. With Chif at the political throttle, the Commonwealth looked set for another long haul on the leftist limited...
...Colonel Stuart Douglas Gordon, 43, who developed the method, has even managed "rebuilding [of] the better part of a soldier's skull, including a completely new eye-socket and cheekbone." The material which Colonel Gordon uses, called cancellous bone, is the spongy substance found between hard bone and marrow. The body's biggest storehouse of it is the hip bone. In its new site, cancellous bone becomes hard and fixed within a month...