Word: socket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...below the joint as possible, while still avoiding infected bone. After dressing the sutured stump to stanch bleeding, the surgeons used an elastic bandage soaked with plaster of paris to mold a cast around the stump and up Myers' thigh. Into the cast they built an aluminum socket, ready for insertion of a temporary aluminum column of adjustable length...
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...
...such patients aged 60 and over. Only three patients have needed a second (higher) amputation because of infection or poor circulation. Unlike some other surgeons, Dr. Sarmiento does not believe in leaving a drain tube in the wound, or in putting any padding between the stump and the socket. He wants the snuggest possible...
...harmless and would form a good, strong tooth, he made molds of extracted teeth on the spot and filled the molds with plastic. After baking for about 15 minutes in a 500° oven, a tooth was rockhard, ready to be sandblasted smooth, sterilized and put into the gaping socket in the patient's mouth. There Dr. Hodosh fastened it in place-sometimes by a pin through adjacent bone, sometimes by a bridge attachment to neighboring teeth...
...stopped playing dominoes with him, and Ruby spends hours hunched over on his bunk playing solitaire. Ruby has tried three times to kill himself-by battering his head against a wall, ripping up his trousers to make a noose, and poking his finger in an electric light socket. Ruby's onetime pride and joy, the tawdry Carousel Club, has been sold, and Mrs. Grant says the family is nearly broke. Ruby's attorney, Phil Burleson, last week filed a 6,341-page appeal and transcript of Ruby's trial in hopes that the state Court of Criminal...