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David Hall, 28, is a chubby, drawling Tarheel who used to play football. Thirteen years ago osteomyelitis (bone infetion) cut his spinal cord and paralyzed him from the waist down. That put him on his back, but not out of circulation. He got through high school and the University of North Carolina in a wheel chair, went on to law school, two years ago married his nurse...
...Steele Commager, Jessamyn West, Frederic Prokosch, V. S. Pritchett, Sean O'Faolain) to write for Tomorrow. She kept her psychic secrets pretty well out of it. People who wanted to know what her aim was got a steady, blue-green stare and a soft answer: "I have no bone to bury, and no ax to grind. But I have a policy: I believe in the humanities, and in common decency...
...week or two, normally, the patient walks out of the hospital without crutches (with conventional treatment it may take months). Later, a surgeon pulls out the nail, and the healed bone is as good...
...confused with more conventional metal splints which are attached outside, the nail is driven into the marrow of the bone. In cases of broken femurs, the surgeon first manipulates the thigh to bring the broken pieces of bone together, using a fluoroscope to see what he is doing. Then, through a one-inch incision in the hip over the end of the bone, he rams a guide wire down through the bone's marrow canal. He slips the hollow, stainless-steel nail over the wire, hammers it in the full length of the bone, pulls out the wire...
...surgeons first heard of the nail when captured G.I.s released from German prisons began to turn up with it inside their thighbones (TIME, Mar. 12, 1945). U.S. surgeons thought it presented serious danger of infection and interference with the blood supply (red blood cells are manufactured by bone marrow...