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After Roosevelt II organized Warm Springs Foundation for the treatment of infantile paralytics, Orthopedist Hoke was called in to be one of 15 consultants. Five years ago Dr. Hoke was asked to become Surgeon-in-Chief. He took up residence in Warm Springs' Little White House, which he regularly vacated each Thanksgiving to make room for the President. White House correspondents quickly made Dr. '"Mike" Hoke's name familiar throughout the land...
Chiropractors who will eventually read Dr. Samuel Sunny Hantlig's article in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association are certain to raise a loud shout of "Copy Cat!" Dr. Hantlig, 34, Boston orthopedist, goes chiropractors one better by actually hanging patients until he cures them of pains in the neck, shoulder, arms, heart. The principle of his treatment is precisely that of chiropractors. By stretching necks and pulling vertebrae apart, he releases pressure on nerves branching out of the spine and thereby removes the causes of aches and pains...
...Polio derelicts" is the phrase which Orthopedist Walter Truslow of Brooklyn uses to describe all individuals crippled by infantile paralysis. Dr. Truslow, who believes that nearly all such deformities are due to lack of protective care of the muscles after an attack of poliomyelitis, last week made this high promise in the American Journal of Surgery...
...Orthopedist Philip Duncan Wilson of Manhattan, president of the Academy, read the message, called off the names of other famed cripples-,Æsop. Richard III, Alexander Pope, Lord Byron, Sir Walter Scott-and pointed to one-legged Dramatist Laurence Stallings who was at the speakers' table of the banquet. From their successes Dr. Wilson drew a moral: "The orthopedic surgeons have the duty not only of relieving the patient of physical deformity, but of watching over his mental training during the long periods of hospitalization. The cripple must be made to understand that while his disability can be greatly...
...roof of the hip socket is gristly and elastic for many months after a baby is born. To overcome congenital dislocation of the hip, the orthopedist need simply spread-eagle the baby's legs with a brace or v-shaped mattress for about six months. The spread-eagling forces the hip bones into their sockets, which yield enough to make permanent receptacles. If the bracing is done before the child is six months old, he will suffer little inconvenience or pain. In the second six months bones start to become rigid and the operation becomes more difficult and painful...