Word: painful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stephanie, 15, whom Sylvia had accused of being a prostitute. In fact, John Jr. told police, at one time or another everyone in the family except Mrs. B.'s 18-month-old baby had burned Sylvia with cigarettes. Polio-crippled Jenny Likens was occasionally forced on pain of beating to join the assault on her sister...
Strung up by his heels from a tree limb, the Viet Cong prisoner, his face twisted in pain, was being interrogated by Nung mercenaries working with a U.S. Special Forces unit in the jungle near Due Phong. The photograph caught an ugly tableau found in every war, and it was widely reprinted in the U.S. press, often with indignant captions. As so often happens with coverage of Allied harshness, neither the picture nor many of its captions told the whole story...
...Pounding Pain. A typical case is that of Ward B. Myers, 38, who was supervising a construction job in Port Angeles, Wash., when his right foot was mashed in a boring machine. The foot became infected, causing osteomyelitis, and surgeons in Seattle's Swedish Hospital spent almost a year trying to save the leg. Myers endured twelve operations and almost constant pain-"like a toothache, it just kept pounding away." Early last month Dr. Ernest M. Burgess, whose team has had more experience with instant prostheses than any other U.S. surgeons, decided that the time had come to amputate...
Next day the peg leg was inserted in the socket and Myers was helped to his feet. He felt only a little discomfort, and on the second day no pain at all. Within ten days he was walking to the barber shop, several blocks away; the next week the surgeons removed the stitches and snapped a new socket snugly to the stump, which had never been appreciably swollen. With this temporary rig, Myers went dancing. Last week orthopedic engineers machined a permanent artificial leg on which Myers wears an ordinary shoe, and he walks well without canes...
...still being tested, all investigating surgeons agree that the basic method has clear advantages for many patients. Compressing the stump and wound area in an instant cast prevents excessive swelling, which often used to cause loss of tissue and muscle strength. Not only does the patient feel far less pain: spared weeks of complete immobility, he is less likely to develop bed sores or other complications of confinement. Psychologically, the method works wonders because patients do not spend weeks feeling mutilated and despondent. Since rehabilitation begins within 24 hours, the amputee has no time to get into the habit...