Word: tibias
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...suggested that he could also straighten her legs for the $800. She consented. While he cut at the scar, Dr. Zaph (he says) worked thus: "The flesh [of a leg] was bared to the bone; an electric saw was used to cut wedges from the main leg bone, or tibia, and then the wound was sewed up. The limb was then placed in a cast and then left to straighten itself out as the wedge closed together." He added: "W'hen the patient left the operating table her condition was good." But gangrene set in, because (he says...
Died. Dr. Henry W. Frauenthal, 63, founder of the Hospital for Joint Diseases (largest orthopedic hospital in the world); having fallen from a seventh floor window; in Manhattan. In 1911 he successfully grafted the tibia bone from a dead man's leg into a girl's leg. In 1912, he saw the Titanic sink...
...revealed a fracture in Jimmy Christman's left tibia. He lay abed in a plaster cast, reading the life of Napoleon Bonaparte.* His classmates were safeguarded against Teacher Hickman by her removal...
...Paris, a soul-sick traveler of life's rugged highway reclined beside a black coffin, gulped beer from a human skull. Amid their falsetto shrieks and groans, other travelers, pleasure-spent, raised skull-mugs to their fleshy lips, thwacked the coffin-lid, toyed with human bones?the femur, the tibia, the humerus. Waiters in the greasy black of undertakers made long faces, scurried about the skeleton hall, doing waiters' work. Maudlin antiquaries dilated upon the history of the ghoul-crooked relics...
...signed by 20,000 Massachusetts men, and several bedfuls of flowers. That afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge, looking grave, went to the Walter Reed Hospital. In one of the rooms lay Calvin Coolidge, Jr., 16, their youngest son, stricken suddenly with virulent septic poisoning that had settled in the tibia of his right leg as the result of a tennis blister. Dr. John B. Deaver, of Philadelphia, operated, but by evening it was known that the patient's condition was extremely serious...