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...been in perfect health until that afternoon when he was slammed against a bridge abutment while riding a freight train. The arm was not mangled, although its upper part was torn. Duty surgeon Dr. L. Henry Edmunds promptly spotted a chance for a historic operation. He started giving the boy two pints of blood, to combat shock, and antibiotics and tetanus shots to guard against infection. Then Dr. Ronald A. Malt, chief resident surgeon, gave the go-ahead order that called in all the specialists who would make the operation a major team effort...
...anticoagulant and a radiopaque dye. X rays promptly showed that the arterial tree was open all the way to the fingertips. Relieved, Dr. Herrmann picked up the arm, carried it carefully to the operating table on which Ev Knowles had just been wheeled in, all draped except for his torn and bloody shoulder...
...Little League elbow, the piece of bone that rests at the end of the elbow (the medial epicondylar epiphysis) is pulled out of position by tendons and muscles and is sometimes fractured. In Little League shoulder, the cartilage near the end of the upper arm bone (humerus) is torn loose. Both injuries require immobilization with a cast, splint, or sling. But all too often, cases are treated at home as "pulled muscles." Many of the injuries could be avoided if young pitchers were warmed up properly before going into a game. Says the University of Florida's Dr. Byron...
...undergoing treatment). Now 70 and back in Sāo Paulo, Chatô still cannot walk, cannot move his right arm, must struggle to move his left arm, and speaks only in hoarse croaks. Worst of all, as he fights to come back, his empire is being torn apart in a savage battle between his two sons and his top executives...
Opposite Directions. At first glance, it might seem as if Jacob Landau, 44, had come out of the same school as Robert Broderson, 41. In both Cinna the Poet (overleaf) and New Myth-Mine Disaster (last color page), the tortured figures look as if they were about to be torn apart...