Word: orthopedist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long hard session of work, Dr. Fishbein suffered an attack of Bell's palsy. The right side of his face hung slack as a bloodhound's jowls. Anna, his wife, "was frantic." He went to bed at once. Neurologists tickled him with electric currents, and an orthopedist stripped his face in a brace. This supported his facial muscles until the nerves recovered and took charge of muscular tone. After three and a half weeks Dr. Fishbein recovered with no residual grimace...
...University of Rochester last week announced that its gait analyst. Orthopedist Russell Plato Schwartz, will build a race track on a farm which he has just bought overlooking the Genesee River. There Dr. Schwartz will walk, trot, single-step, lope and gallop horses on whose backs will be strapped an electric recording device which Dr. Schwartz calls an electrobasograph. This will show by means of wires attached to the hoofs, details of locomotion which the fastest cinema cameras have failed to catch. Eventually Dr. Schwartz "hopes to determine precisely what makes a good race horse...
After Roosevelt II organized Warm Springs Foundation for the treatment of infantile paralytics, Orthopedist Hoke was called in to be one of 15 consultants. Five years ago Dr. Hoke was asked to become Surgeon-in-Chief. He took up residence in Warm Springs' Little White House, which he regularly vacated each Thanksgiving to make room for the President. White House correspondents quickly made Dr. '"Mike" Hoke's name familiar throughout the land...
Chiropractors who will eventually read Dr. Samuel Sunny Hantlig's article in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association are certain to raise a loud shout of "Copy Cat!" Dr. Hantlig, 34, Boston orthopedist, goes chiropractors one better by actually hanging patients until he cures them of pains in the neck, shoulder, arms, heart. The principle of his treatment is precisely that of chiropractors. By stretching necks and pulling vertebrae apart, he releases pressure on nerves branching out of the spine and thereby removes the causes of aches and pains...
...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...