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^Tables • Office Supplies • Drafting Kits • Technical Pens • Drafting Paper • Mechanical Pencils • Markers • Blue ; Page 6A THE BATTALION || | MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 1981 93 percent survival rate achieved Chinese successful in reattaching limbs United Press International TORONTO — Chinese surgeons, pioneers in reattaching severed limbs, report survival rates as high as 93 percent in replanting arms, legs. ^ FRENCH’S SCHOOLS : •‘■^1 4 Convenient Locations After School Pick-up Infant, Day Care, Kindergarten & Private First Grade Tap-Ballet Classes ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ State Licensed 693-9900 Almost better than Grandma’s. ^$$^|$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$< $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $1 $1 $ $ $ BUYINGS GOLD and SILVER ★ Gold ★ Dental Gold ★ Ring & Class Rings ★ Silver Dollars Typical Price of Class Rings $25-$125 HIGHEST PRICES BASED ON CURRENT MARKET MONDAY THRU FRIDAY JAN. 19-JAN. 23 ★ Silver “ 1964 & before ★ Half Dollars ★ Quarters & Dimes ★ Sterling Silver LEN HENRY 1936 & before HOLIDAY 2300 Texas Ave Room 100 8am-6pm 823-8131 $ | |$ !$ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ j$ $ $ "fP Technical Pens • Draffting Paper • Mechanical Pencils • Markers d Blue\ ?. THE iDRAFTIMG o 1BOARD oP NEWS OFFICE SUPPLY 1DS COLLEGE MAIN □<46-2522 OFF SPECIAL PRICES NOW ON: ‘STAEDTLER-MARS 4-PEN TECHNICAL PEN SETS *STAEDTLER-MARS MECHANICAL PENCILS EVERY PURCHASE OVER $10.00 EXCLUDING SALE ITEMS (JAN. 19 - JAN. 24) O'fo* 6 c m 5 Q> Ol 0) o o 9 o> 0) o o c/j Post Office University Dr. TAMU Pencils • Markers • Blue Printing • Lamps • Art Supplies • Drafting feet and lingers amputated in acci dents. Hundreds of such operations have been performed since the first reat tachment of a severed hand was re ported by the Shanghai Sixth Peo ple’s Hospital in 1963. In a report to the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Dr. Chen Zhong-Wei, chief of the orthopedic department at the hospital, said the highest success rates have occurred since 1973 when surgeons started us ing microscopes to aid the reconnec tion of small blood vessels. In one group of 256 patients who were studied for three years after surgery, Chen said 69.5 percent were able to resume their original work or take up other work. Twenty- seven percent were able to carry on daily life but not work full-time and only 3.5 percent had no functional recovery. Chen said that although a severed limb can usually be replanted suc cessfully these days, such surgery cannot be done on every patient. He said the patient’s general con dition must be good enough to per mit him to undergo the complicated and relatively prolonged surgery. Other injuries resulting from the accident must be dealt with before replantation can start, he said, and the severed limb must be preserved until surgery can begin. “In order to achieve survival and good functional recovery of the re planted limb, the essential struc tures of the dismembered part of the severed limb must be relatively in tact,” he said. The degree of damage to the amputated limb depends on the type of accident. Chen said in one series of 250 severed limbs, 77 percent were in volved in a cutting injury and 72 sur vived replantation for a survival rate of93.6 percent. He said the dismem bered part remained essentially in tact when cut by a sharp instrument. Limbs severed by crushing in jury, usually caused by a punching machine or heavy objects, had a sur vival rate of 86.7 percent. Eighty- eight percent of limbs severed by rolhng wheels or gears survived af ter replantation. The lowest survival rates in the study occurred when limbs were se vered by avulsive injury — pulled apart, usually by a limb being caught in some kind of rapidly rotating machine. Chen said limbs severed by this type of injury often had long seg ments of blood vessels and nerves damaged. He said 36 of 48 limbs amputated by this kind of accident were successfully replanted foraa; vival rate of 75 percent. In the same study of 250 seven limbs, Chen said the success rate! closely related to the time the | went without blood circulation, Seventy-two limbs were tached after being severed less« six hours earlier and 68 survived! rate of 94.4 percent. In 102 lu the time between the accident surgery was between 6 and 10 and 90 percent survived. The survival rate was 76.7pei for 60 limbs reattached after a of 10 to 20 hours, and the su,„ rate dropped to 68.8 percent for limbs reattached after 20 hours. Chen said, however, that method of limb preservation and local temperature at the time of j accident also were important fads influencing reattachinent success Fort Worth man s record collection of over 1 million fills three houses, two sheds United Press International FORT WORTH — Looking for Perry Como’s Christmas album of the 1940s? Beatrice Kay’s “Naughty Nineties” collection of the 1930s? Or maybe the California Ramblers’ pop jazz band music of the 1920s? John Taylor of Fort Worth can help. The 76-year-old retired Corps of Engineers employee is an extraor dinary collector of records — he has more than 1 million albums and singles. "I don’t know exactly how many,” he said. Taylor also doesn’t know what specific records he owns. “I used to carry books around with me so I wouldn’t buy duplicates, but that got to be too much trouble,” the white-haired man said. It became too much trouble when his listings were too large to conveniently “carry around. ” Only half of his million-plus records are alphabetized. It is next to impossible to find any specific record in the unorganized section. [j^exma duLtuxs <£(un Caxe. Introductory Offer Introduce 2 friends to Derma Culture treatments and you get 1 free. Limited time only! Treatments by Appointment 707 Shopping Village 693-5909 What began as a search for rumba, fox trot and tango music when he took dancing lessons 27 years ago grew into a full-time profession when Taylor retired 12 years ago. “As my collection grew, I had to buy houses to put them (the records) in. I started out with a little box about so big, ” he said, holding his hands about three feet apart. The cardboard box is now the house across the, street, the house next door, a house six blocks away and two large sheds in the backyards, A visit to the houses is a tour through modem musical history. Taylor seems to know a little about everything and when pulling out Beatrice Kay’s albums he described her as a “red-hot mama singer” of the 1930s. His collection begins with early 1900s selections. These older discs have songs on only one side and are so thick it would seem they couldn’t break. But others do. The floors of the backyard sheds are covered with chips of broken records. One can’t help but crunch half of a record here and there while walking in the narrow aisles. Records are stacked in dust-covered groups from floor to ceiling. Boxes of records are in the rafters overhead. Someone broke into one of the houses recently and stole a record player and Taylor’s golf clubs. “He didn’t steal any records. But of course, I couldn’t tell ifhedid- there are so many out there,” he said. ;; Buddy Da I ketball tea I contest be [ Rollie W1 | steak dinn i entire 195 -l J AGGIE CLEANERS 111 College Main "THE CLEANERS AT NORTHGATE. rou] tnti-a egish United P AUSTIN wrtionists an lade the Legi ass bills makii lit to obtain Douglas J aison for the bmmittee, sa ants laws to u-iunded hosj p have their i ■mission bef trformed and ons difficult t In addition imp favors an Iguire women agiven inforn ff Ask about our Discount Cards Savings up to 20% re perioi Itrodui Vlts. fderal Wen. 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