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Spiked Hips. The unshapely knob at the top of the thigh bone (femur) is the hip bone. When a person, especially if elderly, falls the knob is apt to break off from the thigh bone. Healing has been a tremendously difficult and painful process. Last year Dr. David Robert Telson of Brooklyn suggested piercing the knob and shaft and lacing them together with stout piano wire. This procedure works to a degree. But the stoutest piano wire gives a little. Last week Dr. Frederick J. Gaenslen of Milwaukee said that he got dependable cures of broken hips by nailing...
Hips at Birth. Usually it is difficult to know whether a baby's hip is out of joint. One way to tell is to study the folds in the skin of the thighs. If one thigh is creased more on the inner side 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...
...eagling forces the hip bones into their sockets, which yield enough to make permanent receptacles. If the bracing is done before the child is six months old, he will suffer little inconvenience or pain. In the second six months bones start to become rigid and the operation becomes more difficult and painful. Thereafter manipulation may cause secondary injuries which the orthopedist may well avoid by discreet use of knife, chisel and mallet...
Anybody but W.C. Fields would have a difficult time making "It's a Gift" an entertaining cinema, but the premier genius of cinematic humor has already proven his ability to diffuse even the dullest of material with a spirit of universally appealing humor, and by dial of his admirable skill "It's a Gift" is a truly amusing film. The general make up is typical of the sort of stuff against which Fields has to contend but he produces two especially tickling scenes. The age-old struggle of the male against the female for the bathroom mirror is most laughably...
...community can dodge the matter of censorship in some form, if only to have someone erase the literary effluvia of small boys and morons from lavatory walls. At what point this zeal must be curbed to avoid interference with genuine art is a difficult problem which Boston has assuredly not successfully solved. They made a real blunder some years ago in the matter of "Strange Interlude," and they attracted some noisy attention in the matter of Droiser's "American Tragedy" (the book, not the movie). Granting the extremely doubtful point that the second was "art," do you know...