Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eyed youth, helped his companion dismount, hobble into the house. Dr. Mudd received them in his nightshirt. A kindly, cultured young physician, he was already well established in his country practice, well-liked and well-to-do. He set the hurt man's broken leg, put him to bed. At 2 o'clock that afternoon, despite the physician's protests, the strangers rode away. Short time later Dr. Mudd heard the awful news of President Lincoln's assassination...
Jennie Lee, the Scotch lassie who was a member of Parliament at the age of 24, and the first woman socialist to bed admitted to the English bar, will speak in the New Lecture Hall at eight o'clock on Tuesday under the auspices of the Liberal Club of the Radcliffe International Club and of Phillips Brooks House...
Thigh Brace. Ordinarily two months in bed are necessary before a broken thigh is strong enough to walk on. Dr. Roger Anderson of Seattle gets the patient out of bed in two days by drilling one hole in the femur just above the break and a second just below the break. He puts long steel pins through the holes and flesh and attaches steel braces to the pins. The braces prevent the leg from shortening, permit the patient to walk on crutches...
...than the other, the creased side is dislocated. If both thighs are deeply creased, both hips are probably dislocated. Another method is to put the baby flat on its back and bend its legs at the hips and knees so that its feet are flat on the table or bed. If one hip has been out any length of time, the knee on that side will be lower than the knee of the unaffected side. A careful x-ray picture will also reveal the trouble. But none of these methods shows whether the infant will throw...
...when the announcement was made. Then President Lennihan rose to assure those present that the directors would do their best to prevent a hasty sale of the plant, would try to dispose of it as a unit. That night nearly one-fifth of the people of Southbridge crawled into bed with nothing to look forward to but the dole...