Word: tendons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little Baltimore boys and a girl who were like the Spartan. Johns Hopkins' Drs. Frank Rodolph Ford & Lawson Wilkins discovered them, found that they stubbed toes, barked shins, broke bones, chewed fingers raw, lifted hot plates off stoves - all without complaint. Even when the tender Achilles tendon (just above the heel) "is squeezed these children make no protest and show no sign of pain," reported the doctors. When touched with a pin they can feel the difference between the point and the head. And they can distinguish slight changes in temperature. The doctors concluded that the children...
...Withers. His admirers excused his failures to win by the fact that he was jostled at the start of both races. Winner of the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness was Morton L. Schwartz's Bold Venture. Bold Venture last fortnight retired for the season with a bowed tendon. No favorite of fortune has been Granville. In the confusion at the start of the Kentucky Derby, William Woodward's bay colt lost his jockey. As though this were not hard luck enough for one horse, Granville lost the Preakness, the Wood Memorial and the Suburban Handicap by almost imperceptible...
...lesser stake, to try once more for the blue ribbon of bird dogdom. But his seven years hung heavy upon him. When famed Handler Chesley Harris released him at the starting signal, Kremlin just stood there. Then he tried to start, but he had only three legs. A tendon had tied up. He hobbled out 75 yd. from the gallery, turned and looked back apologetically. Handler Harris had to take...
...Finding little information in anatomical literature on the tensile strength of human tendons, Alfred Eugene Cronkite of Stanford University took 294 tendons from corpses, stretched them between two receding clamps, noted the reading on a beam balance when the tendon broke. Experimenter Cronkite could find no clear correlation between tendon strength and age, cause of death or function of the tendon. In general the strength varied between 9,000 and 18,000 Ib. per sq. in. of cross section. One tendon from an 85-year-old man stood up under nearly 30,000 Ib. per sq. in., about...
Shoulder Strap. Once a person has dislocated a shoulder he must ordinarily be careful not to reach too roughly, for probably one-third of dislocated shoulders repeat the accident. Dr. Toufick Nicola of Manhattan prevents the repetition by cutting part of one of the tendons of the shoulder joint (biceps tendon) and drilling a hole through the upper portion of the arm bone (humerus). Dr. Nicola then laces the cut biceps tendon through the hole and fixes it at the other end of the joint. The tendon thus effectively straps the loose joint together...