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Legs ache? Do they pull, draw, get numb, tingle, prickle or feel as if ants were crawling on or under the skin? Relax, say a group of Mayo Clinic doctors who have studied the problem. There is probably nothing much wrong with the legs, and nothing to be done but submit to the urge to walk...
Among 27 such complaints, Mayo's Dr. Colum A. Gorman and his colleagues found that the sensation was often felt deep inside the leg; in nearly all cases, it was between ankle and knee, but in a few it involved the thighs and feet. The only diagnosis, the doctors concluded, was "restless legs." A 70-year-old priest was unique in also having "restless hands...
What the patients had in common, the Mayo doctors report in the Archives of Internal Medicine, was the absence of any ascertainable disease that would clearly explain their trouble. The problem developed only rarely during the day, almost invariably when the victim was in bed. Then it was severe enough to awaken the sufferer, who could not get back to sleep until he had walked for a while. Some said they waked and walked as many as ten times a night...
Died. William O'Dwyer, 74, New York City's bluff, ebullient Democratic mayor from 1946 to 1950; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. The luck of the Irish "Billo" had, at least in the beginning-immigrant from County Mayo at 20, bartender, hod carrier, New York City policeman, night-school lawyer and overnight hero in 1940 when, as Brooklyn D.A., he uncovered the infamous Murder, Inc. and sent seven of its killers to the chair. That made him mayor of New York, and a good job he seemed to be doing too-until he suddenly quit "because...
...last analysis, each man must make his own accommodation to death. Almost universal is the sentiment of Dr. Charles W. Mayo, recently retired from active surgery at the Mayo Clinic: "I hope that when I die, it will be quick. But if there is some delay, then I hope I'll have somebody I love with me-somebody to hold my hand...