Word: electrobasograph
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...analyst. Orthopedist Russell Plato Schwartz, will build a race track on a farm which he has just bought overlooking the Genesee River. There Dr. Schwartz will walk, trot, single-step, lope and gallop horses on whose backs will be strapped an electric recording device which Dr. Schwartz calls an electrobasograph. This will show by means of wires attached to the hoofs, details of locomotion which the fastest cinema cameras have failed to catch. Eventually Dr. Schwartz "hopes to determine precisely what makes a good race horse...
...walks unevenly or has other faults of locomotion, reveals fake claims of injury after accidents. It has proved that very high heels give the wearer unstable posture and tend to make her walk on the ball and toes of the foot. The recording device, which Dr. Schwartz calls an electrobasograph, indicates how an infantile paralysis cripple improves or fails to improve under treatment...
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