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...suggestion cropped up. Medical World News reported that five Chicago doctors suspect that at least some evening crybabies may be suffering from "growing pains." After observing 250 babies carefully, the doctors concluded that the normal plumpness in an infant's face, legs, thighs, buttocks and collarbone parallels quick bone growth in those areas. They also found a correlation between excessive crying and X rays that showed the bone growth to be particularly rapid...
...needed cortisone shots-three so far. The last one, three weeks ago, had to go directly into the joint to ease the agony. "It does hurt more," he admits. "In fact, it hurts most of the time." He cannot straighten the arm beyond 22°, and the bone spurs on the elbow have grown from i in. to i in. "The spurs," says Dr. Kerlan, "represent an attempt by the body to immobilize the joint." Despite all, Koufax has not missed a turn...
Called decubitus ulcers, bedsores develop quickly when tissue dies after blood is squeezed out by body weight acting on such pressure points as the base of the spine. Flesh is opened right to the bone in oozing craters. The extra nursing care that is called for costs thousands of dollars, and insurance companies allot 25% of expenses in all spinal-cord injuries for bedsore treatment alone. Serious and persistent as it is, the bedsore problem is usually handled by a method that is decades old: sheepskin sheets that soften pressure on patients and permit air to circulate under their bodies...
...Parsis also practice what may be the world's most unique burial custom: instead of being interred or cremated, the bodies of the dead are stripped naked and left on "towers of silence" to be devoured by vultures. Four of these walled, bone-filled areas, tended by humble corpse bearers and barred to all others, including Zoroastrian priests, occupy sites on the outskirts of Bombay...
Suturing, which is the surgical task of sewing together what has been sliced apart, has long required the patient skill of a seamstress. The North American Indians used bone needles and sutures made of sinews. And even today, when surgery is marked by devices as dramatic as mechanical hearts, sewing and tying sutures by hand take up most of the time that a patient is on the operating table...