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...Various incidental findings proved to have considerable clinical importance. The behavior of certain dyes in the tissues showed that, once the lymphatics had been destroyed, the fluids formerly carried off by them circulated purely by gravity, passing from the legs to the abdominal region, whence it was carried to parts of the body whose lymphatics were intact. (A lymphatic is a vessel which carries the watery tissue fluids into the blood stream.) One woman who came to Dr. Homans for treatment was sent home and told to keep her leg elevated for one week. At the end of that time...
Twice as many leg amputations are below the knee as above. Arm amputations are about 50-50 above and below the elbow. About 80% of artificial limbs are legs, made from willow, aluminum or fibre and costing about $200 when attached below the knee, $225 when attached above. They weigh about five pounds, last five or six years. Artificial arms cost from $125 for simple types to $250 for those including movable wrists and hands. Wearers always remove their artificial limbs upon retiring, usually stow them under the bed. They can be donned in two or three minutes. Many wearers...
...Spievak lost both legs at 17 as a brakeman on the Erie Railroad, is so agile at 50 he can kick a football. Light-haired, bespectacled, he is president of Youngstown (Pa.) Artificial Limb Co., which turns out 150 limbs a year. To succeed him the delegates last week chose 50-year-old Clyde Aunger, who at 16 lost a leg in a trolley car accident. In business for himself in San Francisco since 1911, he was taken to Australia during the War to teach his trade. President Aunger's pride is a music box in the calf...
More colorful than either old President Spievak or new President Aunger is Philadelphia Limb Manufacturer Charles Harris Davies who has been minus part of his left leg since a coal mine accident when he was a boy, now does a thriving trade in aluminum limbs, has branches as far away as Argentina. He irks his confreres by being flamboyant, stealing publicity from the convention. This year, to circumvent him, the convention appointed a publicity committee. But, while the more serious minded of the delegates sat down to ponder such questions as whether they were professionals or business...
...signals in the Municipal Stadium that showed they had weathered the trip well. In this practice Torbert MacDonald was shifted to wingback from tailback. This change was made in order to get full advantage of Macdonald's punting ability in case he has to go to spell Allen, whose leg injury has been kicking up and who may not see very much action...