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...Astro-Spacemen decided that the patient could be floated much more delicately than that. In the first place, the weight of the board must be figured with the patient's, so the less that has to be added the better. The instrument makers hit upon an oversized bedboard made of an aluminum honeycomb, which weighs only 7 Ibs. To float patient and bedboard, they chose an air bearing of a type originally designed for instruments in missiles...
...corrective, the physicians put both legs in plaster casts for two weeks, then fitted their patient with seven-pound steel braces from hips to heels. Gentle exercises on a bedboard were begun...
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