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...York for surgery. He had felt pain mainly around the back and outer side of his knee. But at Manhattan's Hospital for Special Surgery, X rays taken after air and dye had been injected into the joint showed that the main trouble was on the inside. The medial meniscus, one of the two pads of cartilage that lie between the thigh and shinbone (see diagram), was torn and rolled back in a tight wad. This explained why Namath had not been able to straighten his leg completely: just as a folded newspaper stuck between a door...
...Little League shoulder." Both troubles result from the fact that bone and cartilage in youngsters have not hardened to the point where they can sustain the stress of continued hard pitching. In Little League elbow, the piece of bone that rests at the end of the elbow (the medial epicondylar epiphysis) is pulled out of position by tendons and muscles and is sometimes fractured. In Little League shoulder, the cartilage near the end of the upper arm bone (humerus) is torn loose. Both injuries require immobilization with a cast, splint, or sling. But all too often, cases are treated...
...described by Dr. White, a tiny electrode is inserted into each frontal lobe of the brain with the patient under general anesthesia. Once in place the electrode tips lie in the "inferior medial" white matter of the lobe, with the thread-thin wires, insulated by lacquer and fine teflon tubing, projecting through the scalp. When the electrodes are attached to the high-frequency electrical current, Dr. White explained, lesions, formed by coagulation of tissue, are created in the area. The process takes from five to 10 seconds. Additional lesions are created at intervals of several days by withdrawing the electrodes...
...about the Noble Savage-but they aren't nearly as crazy as Americans and Europeans. So reports Dr. J. C. Carothers" in the current issue of the U.S. quarterly Psychiatry. For nine years Dr. Carothers was government medical officer in various parts of the colony, for seven more, medial officer in charge of the Mathari Mental Hospital...
Sixty years ago, when the revolutionary ideas of Lister and Pasteur were beginning to gain credence, there was no medial school in the U. S. worthy of the name. American students went abroad to do research, learn surgical and laboratory technique. In 1883 Daniel Coit Gilman, head of Johns Hopkins University, heartened by a $3,228,000 bequest from the Quaker founder of the school, began scouting for distinguished professors who would form the nucleus of a great U. S. medical faculty...