Word: pipestem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mount Zion Hospital, he is still a human disaster, his knee the size of a grapefruit in his frail, pipestem leg. He weighs only 48 Ibs., but has gained 10% more body weight in eight weeks at Mount Zion. His malnutrition is halted, the infection in his burns gone. Carefully engineered blood transfusions preceded a new round of skin grafts, this time successful. The virus-plagued knee cartilage is destroyed, but the joint will be fused; some day, Tran Huu Nhon will walk again in Viet...