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...hospital admitted that the baby had been marked "male" and that the birth certificate said the same, but claimed that the mix-up was merely in the records. Osteopath John M. Andrews explained that when the baby arrived he took it "upside down and backwards . . . noted it had two hands and feet" and hastily handed it to a nurse, as Mrs. Hardwig needed all his attention. On the basis of this casual observation from the rear, he had said the child was a boy, and the nurse obediently wrote it down...
...March 1941 she married Dr. Thomas King, ruddy, boyish Miami osteopath. Three months later, while rehearsing Die Walküre in Mexico City, she was stricken by paralysis. To Minneapolis she went for treatment by famed Australian Nurse Elizabeth Kenny, began taking exercises on which she spends almost four hours daily. She also improved the time by perfecting the role of Isolde in the original German, which she had previously sung only in French...
...TIME is glad to place on the record the exoneration of Osteopath Markert...
...Osteopath Charles T. Markert of Ridgefield Park, N. J. was a good friend of Mr. Walter Freiwald, an accountant in nearby Bogota. So when Mr. Freiwald's 22-year-old son Walter Jr. came home from Plattsburg military training camp last July with infected tonsils. Osteopath Markert, himself only 25, offered to spare the family the expense of a hospital and surgeon. He invited his boyhood friend and schoolmate, Osteopath Thomas O. Maxfield, 27, of Maplewood, to come to his office and remove Walter's tonsils...
Under New Jersey law, Markert was not allowed to prescribe drugs, administer anesthetics, or use the knife in surgical operations. But Maxfield was a newly qualified "licensed medical practitioner"- a kind of super-osteopath who had passed a special State examination allowing him "unlimited practice...