. Wisconsin medical recorder . I marched over and grabbed her by the ear. was normal, while the bones began toharden from the lime water she wasgiven with each meal. Even now shebid fair to have unusual beauty but thecondition of her back and legs botheredme greatly and I began to realize that with great care, hoping to have enoughto give her at least a common school edu-cation and I was reluctant to buy herbraces for her legs at the high pricesasked for this apparatus. By the useof considerable persuasion I prevailed 198 WISCONSIN MEDICAL RECORDER upon Big Jerry, the blacksmith, to iron and h


. Wisconsin medical recorder . I marched over and grabbed her by the ear. was normal, while the bones began toharden from the lime water she wasgiven with each meal. Even now shebid fair to have unusual beauty but thecondition of her back and legs botheredme greatly and I began to realize that with great care, hoping to have enoughto give her at least a common school edu-cation and I was reluctant to buy herbraces for her legs at the high pricesasked for this apparatus. By the useof considerable persuasion I prevailed 198 WISCONSIN MEDICAL RECORDER upon Big Jerry, the blacksmith, to iron and hammer, began to shape theforge the apparatus out for me, but steel as I saw it in my mind, much toafter several trials I found it impossible the amusement of the good-hearted fel-. I found Aunt Mary having a beautiful attack of hysterics. to make my ideas intelligent to his sim-ple mind, and becoming disgusted Ithrew off my coat and, grabbing the low and his contingent of idle teamsters,who were waiting for their horses to beshod. I was surprisingly successful, WISCONSIN MEDICAL RECORDER 199 and after I had it shaped to suit me, mybig friend kindly put the finishingtouches on it. The apparatus restricted the freedomof motion of our patient, but the skinwas so intolerant that she could wearthem for but a short time without caus-ing abrasions, and considerable experi-menting was done to avoid this and atthe same time allow the girl a certainamount of freedom. Nan, while we hadsucceeded in convincing her of thenecessity of wearing them, still believedthem the invention of the devil, an opin-ion, by the way, that I was reluctantlycompelled to agree with before we weredone with them. It soon became appar-ent to me that to restrict freedom ofmotion with the girl meant


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