Word: sciatica
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...found new audiences fresh and stimulating. In 1905 Frederick Stock succeeded Thomas as conductor of the Chicago Symphony. But before the old man's death he had taken the orchestra out on the road, satisfied himself that Thomas was right. Conductor Stock, now 61, suffers from sciatica and arthritis. But when the other big league conductors-Koussevitzky of Boston, Toscanini of New York, Stokowski of Philadelphia-hurry off for vacations after the formal winter season, Stock stays on duty to take his band to Cornell in Iowa, to the Festival at Ann Arbor. Usually thereafter he sails for Germany...
Reporters rushed round to verify the story from M. Chiappe. They found him in bed with sciatica...
Football Coach Amos Alonzo Stagg gave to Chicago's new Jackson Park Museum' of Science & Industry the electric buggy which for years carried him about the University of Chicago field when he was suffering from sciatica...
...from Ottawa, to see Dr. Mahlon William Locke. While getting his arches treated Author Beach was amazed to learn what thousands of persons from all parts of Canada and the U. S. knew about Dr. Locke; that he treats from 800 to 1,000 a day for rheumatism, arthritis, sciatica, neuritis; that he charges $1 to those who can afford it; that his treatments, consisting solely of manipulation of the feet, last about 20 sec. each. Impressed, Author Beach wrote an article on "The Pain Killer" which appeared in the August Hearst's International-Cosmopolitan (circulation...
...licensed physician, treats goitre, delivers babies as well as manipulating feet. But a chief activity is treating arthritis and rheumatism. In Edinburgh he learned that walking too soon after illness frequently caused fallen arches and other foot troubles. He claims that foot ills pave the way for arthritis, rheumatism, sciatica. He believes that by restoring normal foot posture, relieving pressure upon the posterior tibial nerve, he can relieve the diseases. Some physicians, realizing that there is much about these diseases that medicine does not know, believe Dr. Locke may be right. Others, pointing out that arthritis is often nine-tenths...