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Remember to watch for dropped flies, pop-ups, surprisingly bad performances by superstars, a bad throw from right field by Dwight Evans, and very probably a sprained ankle--or more likely--a fractured ulna or battered hip or broken tibia. These are the curses which blow in from Cleveland, land of the perverse and mindbending mysterious. These are the kind of things which only happen in conjunction with Cleveland...
When Emanuel Brachfield's broken tibia failed to heal after six months in a cast and several operations, even his doctors began to worry. Reason: if fractured bones do not knit, the affected limb may eventually have to be amputated. Brachfield, 70, a retired New York City office worker, had heard from his physician that doctors at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center were experimenting with a treatment that uses electricity to mend broken bones. He tried it. After eight weeks of electrotherapy, Brachfield has shed cast and crutches and is walking normally again...
...most fractures. "Natural healing is still the best," says Bassett, who notes that he and his colleagues are not in business to put careless skiers back on the slopes overnight. But electrotherapy can aid patients with nonhealing fractures-notably elderly patients and youngsters with congenital pseudoarthrosis of the tibia, an inherited condition in which nerve defects block healing of fractured shin bones...
...indexed to the sagging ledgers. That book says that the first specimens of Ornithorhynchus, commonly known as the duck-billed platypus of Australia, were handed over to Alexander Agassiz in 1878 by E. Gerrard Jr. Those first specimens are skeletal parts and they are catalogued, down to the last tibia, in a small hand in black ink under the title Ornithorhynchus Paradoxus...
...simple fracture of the tibia," announced Dr. Hamilton Hutchinson after examining the left leg of Alabama Governor George Wallace. Less simple, apparently, was the question of just how the presidential aspirant managed to injure himself. Shot and partially paralyzed three years ago, Wallace now has no feeling in his legs, but he noticed a swelling and felt a slight rise in temperature. After taking X rays, Hutchinson theorized that his patient broke the shinbone while riding his electric exercise bicycle or during one of his therapy sessions on the parallel bars. At any rate, Wallace now faces not only...