Word: orthopedists
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...doctors have had the chance to study the impact of war upon a civilian population. Boston's Orthopedist Charles H. Bradford, one of the few, went to Britain early in 1940 to help with blitzkrieg casualties. Lately he has plugged hard for an adequate medical defense plan in Massachusetts. Last week, warning the U.S. to prepare for the worst, Dr. Bradford urged an immediate overhaul of the Armed Forces' overlapping medical services...
Among some of the medical aids, which Orthopedist Splithoff says should be tried only with a doctor's advice: a corset-belt to fit the lower back; special shoes for flat feet-a common cause of back troubles; massages and home exercises; a horsehair mattress instead of an innerspring mattress; radiant heat, possibly an old-fashioned electric toaster; a fat-reducing diet; plenty of sleep...
Among others who joined in the denunciation of too much rest were famed Orthopedist Ralph K. Ghormley of the Mayo Clinic ("the day an arthritic patient gives up and goes to bed is the day he becomes a total cripple") and Psychiatrist Karl A. Menninger of the Menninger Clinic ("an automobile whose engine has become overheated as the result of being driven with the brakes set cannot be cured by resting...
...long hard session of work, Dr. Fishbein suffered an attack of Bell's palsy. The right side of his face hung slack as a bloodhound's jowls. Anna, his wife, "was frantic." He went to bed at once. Neurologists tickled him with electric currents, and an orthopedist stripped his face in a brace. This supported his facial muscles until the nerves recovered and took charge of muscular tone. After three and a half weeks Dr. Fishbein recovered with no residual grimace...
...University of Rochester last week announced that its gait 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...