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First off, the physical therapists felt obliged to explain their specialty to a world that was ready to call them quacks. London's Dr. Franz Nagelschmidt, who fostered physical therapy in 1912 with his Textbook of Diathermy and who recently discovered a therapeutic electric current which reduces fatty tissue without dieting or drugging, volunteered to explain one aspect. Said he last week in Kansas City...
Legitimate doctors are just beginning to understand the multitude of effects that physical agents-machines, baths, heat, electricity, exercises-have on human beings. According to Dr. Nagelschmidt, "Physical therapy has left the field of empiricism and has entered the scientific realm.'' On the other hand virtually anyone can learn to manipulate virtually any physiotherapeutic device in a few hours. One of the best schools for the training of such technicians, the New Haven School of Physical Therapy, headed by an M. D., requires only a high-school diploma of students. They pursue their training course in twelve months...
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