Word: tendon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thatcher stitches the bottom of the new finger tendon to the large master tendon in the palm of the hand. With careful exercise, said Dr. Thatcher, natural flexion is usually re-established within six weeks...
Fingers-from Toes. Dr. Herbert van Heekeren Thatcher of Portland, Ore., told his colleagues how he mends severed finger tendons without impairing the grasping function of the hand. First he slips a stainless steel rod, three-sevenths of an inch in diameter and curved to fit the natural bend of the finger, into the narrow sheath which encloses the torn tendon...
After three weeks he cuts a section of tendon from a toe or wrist, transplants one end inside the fingertip, ties the other to a notch in the steel rod, gradually withdraws the rod through the finger, pulling the new tendon into the sheath-a process like that used by any woman in pulling an elastic through a hem. Finally...
When word swept around that Old Westbury's young Mike Phipps, playing at No. 1, had come onto the field, directly from a doctor's office, with his mallet wrist strapped to keep a loose tendon in place, it looked bad for Sonny Whitney's side. A few moments later it looked even worse when Sonny was cracked on the forehead by Cousin Jock's mallet, carried to a first aid tent to have the gash stitched together. But, like most poloists who refuse to be downed unless they are out, Westbury's Back...
...strange coincidence that happens perhaps once in a generation. Seabiscuit, whose scratching canceled the famed Memorial Day $100,000 match race with War Admiral, was withdrawn a half hour before post time because of a swollen tendon, and Dauber, who had been so excited the day he arrived in Hollywood that he jumped out of his van while riding from the rail-road station, bruised a leg and broke a tooth, was also scratched a half hour before post time because of a bowed tendon...