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...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...
After his exchange, U.S. Army doctors X-rayed the soldier's leg. They were amazed at what they saw: a half-inch metal rod of some kind had been rammed down the thighbone through the marrow for three-quarters of the bone's length, thus supplying a permanent, internal splint...
...tanks of the 77th, ordered to withdraw-when it was too late, tried to fight their way through the 9th's roadblock. The U.S. commander honored them with a "serenade": every gun within range opened up at maximum rate of fire. The carnage chilled even the victors' marrow. But the enemy's attempted sortie failed...
...Best animal for serum experiments is the rabbit. Serum for the purpose is made by inoculating rams with rabbit spleen and marrow cells, making an extract from their blood...
...Marrow & Spice. Friends of the author thought she resembled the small, rosy Lucie of The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle. She was English to the marrow, spoke in a spicy North Country accent, was deeply attached to her Lake Country. She often went out haying with the farmers, wearing buckled Lancashire clogs and wide straw hat. She never went out of England. Old English china, silver and furniture were her hobbies...