Word: splint
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Katharine Cornell, on the porch of her home on Martha's Vineyard, heard a call for help, traced it to a ravine, where she found an Episcopal clergyman. Climbing there, he had brought a boulder down on him and broken his leg. Actress Cornell whipped up a makeshift splint, applied it to the ministerial leg, briskly bundled the cleric off to the hospital in her station wagon...
...says the WAVES aren't a "fighting and sea-going crew" (as per our favorite marching song)?. Ask the unlucky second baseman of the NSCS faculty team why he is going around with a sling and a splint. Battle-scarred also is Miss Marian Read, who literally overcame all obstacles to become "safe at second" by the decision of a right good ump at the bases, Lt. Comdr. Hesser, Executive Officer of the School...
...Stader reduction splint" was devised in 1931 by Veterinary Otto Stader (of Ardmore, Pa.) because his canine patients gnawed plaster casts off their legs. When Drs. Kenneth Lewis and Lester Breidenbach of Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital saw a Stader splint on a dog, they were impressed at once with the fact that it drew the broken bones back into their normal position and served as a convenient splint while they grew together again...
Advantages of the splint...
Arthritic deformities-hopelessly gnarled hands or clumsily stiffened joints where two bones have calcified together-"are too often due to neglect" and can largely be avoided. Treatment: simple exercises and a simple splint worn for part of each day. Warm dips, as in old-age rheumatism, are helpful. Curious fact: pregnancy usually brings temporary relief to arthritic women...