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...Polio derelicts" is the phrase which Orthopedist Walter Truslow of Brooklyn uses to describe all individuals crippled by infantile paralysis. Dr. Truslow, who believes that nearly all such deformities are due to lack of protective care of the muscles after an attack of poliomyelitis, last week made this high promise in the American Journal of Surgery...
...Truslow, after 40 years of orthopedic surgery, accomplishes his repairs by altering bones, muscles, tendons. He cited a dozen cases to show what he meant. One of them concerned a Miss T. S. who suffered a severe attack of infantile paralysis when she was 5. When Dr. Truslow saw her eight years later, "she walked with two crutches, right leg decidedly knock-kneed and with a flexion deformity, 20� outward rotation of leg, right foot in equinovarus; moderate scoliosis...
...Truslow operated on her right shin bone, just below the knee, to correct the knock-knee, knee flexion and outward flexion of that...
...agency active in molding human thought and action." He has selected works from Harper's, the American Mercury. The Atlantic Monthly, Scribner's, North American Review, Forum and Century, Yale Review, Fortune, and the Current History Magazine. Among the authors represented are Theodore Drieser, Jane Adams, Christian Gauss, James Truslow Adams, Albert Jay Nock, James Rowland Angell, Robert Hillyer, Michael Pupin, Pearl S. Buck, Zona Gale, and John Erskine...
AMERICA'S TRAGEDY? James Truslow Adams? Scribner...