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...surgery Dr. Matas has been protean. He was one of the first to use local anesthesia. He invented a splint for broken jaws and aluminum binders for bulging arteries. He discovered safe ways of operating in the cavities of the chest and sure ways of testing for blocked circulation in fingers and toes...
...first time in 20 years the brace in the finals belonged to one owner, Andrew G. C. Sage of New York, nephew of the late great Russell Sage. One was Superlette, nine-year-old bitch, who was runner-up last year after going through the trials in a splint to save her bad leg. The other was Rapid Transit, a muscular liver & white dog who, in his semi-final heat with the pointer Mad Anthony, made eleven finds, handled perfectly, wound up the last 30 min. of the three-hour run with three fine casts, each for a fresh find...
Matchmaking. Chemist John Walker of Stockton-on-Tees, England, invented the first match, exactly 101 years ago. It was called a "friction light." It consisted of a wooden splint, one quarter inch in width, dipped in a mixture of sulphide of antimony, chlorate of potash, gum and starch.* The next epoch in matchmaking was brought about by the use of phosphorus. Over-inflammable, phosphorus matches caused many a fire. Factory hands, employed in their production succumbed to an incurable disease called phossy-jaw. The dangers of these matches at length were recognized in the laws of most nations, including matchmaking...
While cutting the leopard moth larvae from the limbs of the elms last fall, a small beetle was found, which has since been identified as the European elm bark-borer--scolytus multistriatus-marsh. In Germany it is known as the "splint kafer" and it is one of their most injurious pests. It enters the bark and the newly hatched larvae work in the splint of the live wood causing the bark to loosen and eventually fall off. Scores of trees in the Yard and about Cambridge have been examined and without exception all of them are infected...
...Brewer and Wheeler, who were out with the first eleven, simply ran around the field several times. Donald, who was also out in football clothes, took very little exercise and went in early. Merriman was on the field, but not dressed to play, and one leg is in a splint. F. Shaw was around on crutches. Brown practiced kicking goals, succeeding in six out of eight trials...