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Slap, slap, slap, for 3,600 times without a miss the fretting fists of William Ogden Heath, 27, of Garden City, L. I., struck the punching bag over his head. He was flat on his back, but not for virtuosity in bag punching. His hips and knees were stiff and painful from arthritis. Abnormal deposits of bone made them practically immovable. Drugs, vaccines, sun baths, oven bakings, changes of climate had done him no good. The disease had grown worse, and this backside bag hitting was an intelligent young man's desperate effort to prevent his arm joints becoming...
William Ogden Heath's case came to the attention of Dr. Fred Houdlett Albee, 52, great orthopedic surgeon, professor at both the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and the University of Vermont College of Medicine, an Sc. D. as well...
...Albee believed he could ameliorate if not cure the Heath case of arthritis. Plan: To open up the knee and hip joints and scrape away the freak bone formation; to line the knee joints to prevent fraction with fat and connective tissue from the thighs; to replace the excised, but normal, bones and skin. That is what...
...from that operation William Ogden Heath was recovering last week-painfully but hopefully...
Epsom Downs is a heath where gypsies camp, the wind blows, and Londoners sometimes come for picnics. In the winter it is deserted and sinister-looking but on one day a year nearly a million people drive from all over England to see the race. Motor buses park along the last mile of the course and the spectators sit on top of them drinking champagne. This year as usual they bought luck-charms from gypsy peddlers, cheered the Prince of Wales, waved their hats at the King, and shouted as the horses went round to the start. Lord Derby...