Word: reinhoff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Foot. The foot of one Eric Hamilton was crushed in an elevator. A tuberculous condition of both bone and flesh of the heel developed. Dr. William F. Reinhoff, resident surgeon of Johns Hopkins Hospital, began by cutting off the tuberculous part of the heel. He then cut a deep wound in the calf of Hamilton's uninjured leg, put the remainder of the stricken heel into the wound, and proposed to leave Hamilton for a month in that position. Dr. Reinhoff said the flesh of heel and leg will grow together; a new heel will be built from...
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