Word: stumping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contrast with the recent practice of amputating above the knee, the Burgess team operated as far 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...
...French surgeon were fitting artificial legs while patients were still on the operating table-and still under anesthetic for their amputations. To most of his American listeners, Weiss seemed far off base. In U.S. experience, it always took from three months to a year to let a stump heal and to fit a permanent prosthesis on which the patient could learn to walk...
...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...
...more than 50 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...
...unlimited class Dave Goins of Lowell planned Joe Gavin of Kirkland. Jon Dunn (137) of Lowell closed out Howell Browne of Kirkland 6-0. John Sinnott (177) of Quincy pinned Dick Hayes of Kirkland, and Ed Stump (167) of Leverett defeated Phil Tonks of Dunster...