Word: proulx
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Dates: during 1967-1967
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Characteristically, Dr. Murray reported his work at a fund-raising dinner. Unexpectedly, he had a patient wheeled into the ballroom. The patient: Bertrand Proulx, 24, a Quebec truck driver whose spinal cord was injured in an accident four years ago, had not been able to move his hands or elbows and breathed with his diaphragm because he could not expand his chest...
...show what Dr. Murray had accomplished, Proulx pulled on slings attached to a bar over the bed and lifted himself to a sitting position. He needed nurses' help to get off the bed, but then he stood in a walker, waved one arm high, heaved himself into a comfortable position on the bed, and took a drink from a glass. Proulx "hadn't moved a joint for three years," said Dr. Murray. "But this fellow is going to walk...
...spinal cord in man. Dr. Murray offered a simple explanation of previous failure and his apparent success: when a cord is severed it retracts, thus becoming shorter than the corresponding length of adjacent vertebrae. To compensate for this difference in length, Murray removed three-quarters of an inch of Proulx's spinal cord at the damaged area, carefully cutting it so that the severed nerve fibers would fit precisely together when reconnected. Murray then cut a matching length of bone from Proulx's vertebrae, completed the operation by rejoining both spinal cord and bone...