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Gait Recorder. When patients with foot or postural troubles go to Orthopedist Russell Plato Schwartz in Rochester, N. Y., Dr. Schwartz puts hobnails on their shoes and has them walk over an electrified metallic floor, thus making an electrical transcription of their gait. The record tells whether a person limps, walks unevenly or has other faults of locomotion, reveals fake claims of injury after accidents. It has proved that very high heels give the wearer unstable posture and tend to make her walk on the ball and toes of the foot. The recording device, which Dr. Schwartz calls an electrobasograph...
...upon me." He had eight children; his son John, nine; John's son Danforth, six (including Philip D. I and Herman Ossian). Philip D. I's son was Jonathan Ogden, whose only child Lolita Ogden (Mrs. John J. Mitchell Jr.) was cured of a childhood hip deformity by famed Orthopedist Dr. Adolf Lorenz (TIME, March 22. 1926) ; and Philip D. II (died 1900), whose children are Philip D. Ill and Lester...
...President took off his shoes, extended first his right foot, then his left. "Wonderful feet... size 8 ... almost perfect for walking purposes . . . indicative of a cool, steady life," said Dr. Peter Kahler, Manhattan orthopedist, who measured the presidential feet and took orders for presidential footwear. Flappers, he added, might well be proud of feet like Mrs. Coolidge's, also "almost perfect," size 4 1/2. Dr. Kahler's grandfather made size 14 shoes for President Lincoln...
...tall, grey, compassionate, merry surgeon was Dr. Adolf Lorenz, Austrian orthopedist...
...surgical skill the protection and aid U. S. munificence had afforded Austrian War-emaciated children. His method of correcting congenital deformity of the hip was "bloodless," that is, he did not use the knife. His procedure was scientific, although it differed from that of Dr. Edward Hickling Bradford,* surgeon, orthopedist and Dean of the Harvard Medical School. The professional opposition to him raged, not against his operative principles and methods, rather against the noisy publicity newspapers gave him. The press touted him as a miracle worker, a Messiah come to redeem the halt and the lame. Cameramen got him, always...