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Rossini: Stabat Mater (Maria Stader, Marianna Radev, Ernst Häfliger, Kim Borg; RIAS Symphony conducted by Ferenc Fricsay; Decca, 2 LPs). The composer who was once advised by Beethoven to stick to comic opera, here turns up in a churchly (if not always churchlike) mood. The chorus sings some lofty and properly devotional counter point, but the lovely solo voices have arias that bounce and flow with the joyfulness of the Barber of Seville. Performance: elegant...
...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...
...Stader technique, a pair of metal pins is first driven through the flesh and well into each end of the fractured bone (see cut). For greater firmness the pins are driven in obliquely, as a carpenter drives a nail. Each set of pins is then locked into a pin-bar, and the two bars are bolted to a long extension rod, forming a sort of external auxiliary bone. The apparatus (weight: 2¼ Ib.) is made of a light aluminum alloy except for 1) the pins, which are stainless steel so that they will not corrode in contact with flesh...