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Four thousand Yale rats had their legs broken so that Dr. Samuel Clark Harvey, professor of surgery, could learn how broken bones mend. Last week he presented a summary of his study. On a normal diet the rats' legs show some strength the sixth day after the break. Strength increases rapidly until the 15th day, during which tide calcium and phosphorus salts are deposited. Then for six days the new bone loses up to 30% of its strength. After the 21st day the bone again grows stronger, healthier, until completely healed...
...important observation has to do with diet while broken bones mend. If the diet lacks the necessary salts, the broken bone draws its material from the other bones of the body, weakens them...
...years ago Dr. Kane ruptured himself riding horseback. He was nearing 65 and repairing the abdominal tear seemed scarcely worth while. But last week the old surgeon decided that he might just as well mend his rupture. To assist him he called Dr. Howard Martin Cleveland, whose birth? was one of his very first confinement cases, from Mount Jewett twelve miles away. To the operating room in Kane Summit Hospital he summoned a, reporter and a newsphotographer. While they recorded details he propped himself on an operating table, cleaned the left groin where he was to cut, gave himself...
...city editor of the New Haven, Conn. Register, managing editor of the New York Globe. He contributes to many magazines. He wrote Investment Trusts Gone Wrong! which was widely read in Wall Street. He now derives much satisfaction from the fact that important steps have been taken to mend erring investment trust ways...
Happy though Republicans were, they did not forget that next year holds their fate. The best they could hope for was that the moratorium would do some visible good and do it quickly. With the Depression definitely on the mend by July 1, 1932, the party could point with overt pride to the Hoover Holiday. But the Depression, despite the moratorium, might continue all year long, leaving the voters in 1932 in a disappointed, vindictive frame of mind. In that case G. O. Politicians knew that Democratic charges of "Hoover bungling" would be louder than ever...