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Charnley, a surgeon at England's Wrightington Hospital in Wigan, was not the first physician to replace part of the hip's ball-and-socket joint. Doctors had long been substituting a stainless-steel ball for the head of the femur, or thighbone. But even after the introduction of better bone cements eliminated one problem-the tendency of the new head to work loose-the results of the operation were often unsatisfactory. Because body fluids provided inadequate lubrication and even corroded the implants, friction between the ball and its socket caused both to wear...
...vastly improved artificial hip has now been devised. Using a replacement hip of his own design and a unique sterilization technique, Surgeon John Charnley, 59, of England's Wrightington Hospital at Wigan, has performed 4,000 hip operations and cut the infection rate among his patients from 4% to .5%. Two major U.S. medical centers, New York's Hospital for Special Surgery and Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital, are now performing the operations...
...already serving as the undergraduate president, Don Forte as secretary, and track captain-elect Don MacKinnon as treasurer. These two men were named to the Executive Board at the annual blections, to serve with George Owen '23, former Boston Bruins captain and nine-letter man at Harvard, Edgar N. Wrightington '97, ox-football captain, and Dean George F. Plimpton...
...George Owen, Jr. '23, Eliot T. Putnam, Jr. '30, William T. Reid, Jr. '01, George F. Roberts '38, Leverett Saltonstall '14, William H. Schmidt, 2nd '37, Ernest W. Soucy '16, Vernon H. Struck '38, Walter H. Trumbull '15, Donald C. Watson '16, Robert B. Watson '37, Edkar N. Wrightington...
...graduate members of the board are G. Peabody Gardner, Jr. '10, Edgar N. Wrightington '97, and Delmar Leighton...