The Washington herald., 1912-02-18
ONE OF THE LATEST MARVELLOUS CREATIONS OF THE HUMAN
MIND FOR THE TREATMENT OF DISEASES OF THE HUMAN BODY
Northwest

cince 1904 different surgeons and profess
sors Of anatomy have been making a study of
how to cure diseases Of the foot and diseases
caused by the foot. AS in all great scientific
studies and practices, each mind has added
some theory that was good and some that
have proven. bad but on the whole progress
has been made Like everything else that
means progress, enlightenment, or education,
different minds have worked on different lines.
We people of to-day know that the care of
the teeth is essential to appearance, comfort,
and health. The number of dentists has in
creased twenty-five fold, probably double that
in the last twenty-five years.
The advancements in the successful appli-
cation Of electricity to the human body have
come along on the same lines, as we'll as the
discovery of contagious microbes, making the
one-tne most dreaded disease class with the
milder FORMS so that dysentery, typhoid, small
pox yellow fever malaria, blood poison, and
} hydrophobia are becoming less dangerous,
( through the study and progress of the scien-
tihc minds of the medical profession, That
there is an antidote, or cure, for every known
disease of the human family is being proven
concluslvely, and we believe that the progress
OF science in the coming years will prolong
the average life to one hundred years or more.
For two years some of Our staff have been
personally acquainted with the inventor, w. c.
Guilford, and have been watching with a great
deal of interest his progress and success in
his specially, the foot and in this interview
we drew him out to talk of himself, his in
ycntions, and his hopes for the betterment of
the human family, and we are quoting his
opinion, which we consider most valuable, on
the subject of diseases of the foot, its rela-
ton to the diseased condition of the body. or
gaHically and constitutionally, and there can
be no doubt that his ideas put into practice
are getting results that have never been OBJ
tanned by any other methods.
For great many years / have been
deeply interested in the different methods pur-
sued by the different scientific surgeons and
professors of the world / began my career
thrty-two years ago in the me;licaI world In
the last fifteen years | have been deeply>in-
terested in the foot from a specialists stand
point. knew there were thousands of minds
keener, better trained, and possibly with more
experience than myself, but did know con-
clusiyely that the ingenuity and mechanical
training were mine. ! had accomplished more
or less of success in every machine, device,
or apparatus that ! ever tried to perfect The
publications that | had for reference ran into
the thousands. AS could not find any authen-
tic reports that any of these we're successful
IN large majority of cases, | reached the
conclusion that there was vast opportunity for
Improvement.
Il started out with the idea that if one of
the bones of the foot were to get out of line
by wrench-which could occur by misstep,
fall, too long continuance on ones feet on
hard floors, pavements, &c.-that the rest of
the foot would be affected, as every bone bore
its proportional part of the weight and gave
its proportional part of support. The three
principal bones Of the foot are the cunei-
FORMS, which the ordinary person calls their
arch. believed that could invent a way
whereby could take an impression of the foot
with the limbs in relaxed position and then
make metal support from this impression,
that would be working along on the lines
which great many other minds had tried un-
successfully. The result was that l invented
what is now known as The Wihelmina I'm
preston Apparatus will try to outline this
method very briefly.
There is chair in which the patients are
placed, and the machine adjusted to the length
of their limbs, putting the patients in re-
clining position, locking their feet in the ap-
paratus, to get the relaxed position that is
necessary. Under the foot of the patient is
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