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Last week Southern newspapers hailed the fracture treatment of Dr. Rettig Arnold Griswold of the City Hospital in Louisville, Ky. For the last 15 years...
...Griswold has been puttering away at bone carpentry, improving fracture methods that were developed during World War I. He has patched hundreds of broken legs-with hammer and nails...
...Griswold's treatment, called "double pin skeletal fixation," is painless, but it looks bad. First a patient's leg is anesthetized. Then two long steel pins, one-eighth of an inch thick, are hammered through the leg, above and below the fracture. A small steel mallet is used, and the pins are driven directly through flesh & bone, protruding about an inch on either side...
Britisher Byron Charles Tate, a member of the Griswold-Harkness Expedition (1934-35) to the East Indies, sued Explorer Lawrence Tarleton Knutsford Griswold for $100,000 for defamation of character because of an incident in Griswold's book, Tombs, Travel and Trouble. Grounds: Tate never attempted to seduce the wife of a headhunter...
December 13--"Some State and National Boundaries"--Illustrated. Professor E. N. Griswold...