Word: orthopedist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Orthopedist Robert Collis saw him when he was twelve. Though Collis could do nothing then, he never forgot the boy. Six years later, when he set up a clinic in Dublin, Dr. Collis looked Christy up. Experts decided that at 18 Christy could be taught to speak intelligibly, to walk a little and to use his hands-provided that he would swear off using his left foot. This versatile limb was helping to keep him a cripple. When younger, Christy had got around in a gocart; later he often traveled on his brother's shoulders...
...latest model now being worn by I.B.M. Consultant John Seeley (who is helping Manhattan's Alderson Research Laboratories to test it), the switches have been shifted from the toes to the stump at the shoulder. This puts into practice one of the principles espoused by Orthopedist Kessler: the controls must be as nearly natural as possible, so that the wearer will have to learn a minimum of new reflexes and responses. Seeley, who lost both arms at 14 when he was run over by a train, now works his electric arm by six switches which are actuated by twitches...
...year, her father & mother worried, like every father & mother in the same plight, about the lasting paralysis that might follow. For months, it seemed that their worst fears were confirmed: three-year-old Shirley was almost completely paralyzed. But Shirley's father is Dr. Alvin C. Schopp, an orthopedist at St. Louis University and St. Anthony's Hospital. He had been searching for years for something that would help to give back vitality to nerves damaged by the polio virus. A new drug, Pyromen, had just come in for testing...
...doctors who never tire of arguing about the age and origin of diseases, a Washington orthopedist rattled some old bones last week. Exhibited to the District of Columbia Medical Society was a collection of human bones culled with care from the Smithsonian Institution's vast collection by Orthopedist William J. Tobin. Beside each bone was an X-ray diagnosis of what ailed the long-dead patient...
...doctors have had the chance to study the impact of war upon a civilian population. Boston's Orthopedist Charles H. Bradford, one of the few, went to Britain early in 1940 to help with blitzkrieg casualties. Lately he has plugged hard for an adequate medical defense plan in Massachusetts. Last week, warning the U.S. to prepare for the worst, Dr. Bradford urged an immediate overhaul of the Armed Forces' overlapping medical services...