Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-01-01
MAKE THE LAME TO WALK |
WONDERS OF SURGERY
GRAPHICALLY PICTURED
state Health Workers ucnr interest
Ing Exposition by DIR. William
Tate Graham.

That the day of miracles in so far
as making the lame aud the halt to
walk. and Strengthening bon, ana
twisted limbs of children of the state
in the address of Or William rate
Graham yesterday afternoon at the
workers.
%. Or; Graham is head Of the STATE
crippled children. conducted in Ia.
basement OF, DIR. Graham's house. 3l4
East Franklin, directly opposit. the
Womans club.
Al the present time. it was stated.
90 have its citizens grow up straight
and strong, and for this reason. DR..
I Graham talk, illustrated with lantern
Sldcs, was of the most vital interest
10 his audience of State workers. under
The. State Board of Health. Even these
, trained workers CaSpcd audihly yes
leT4aE at the revelations OF the screen
as DR.. Graham went on To explain in
5 DE %hTt had been ana W9at could
Virginia who might otherwise y"
ihropgh life deformcd ana crippled
Made 10 walk Again.
lie told them Of how little children
%grI made &c. to walk again ;,, by laiing
Tnction and replacing them with new
muscle tissue from some 01hcr part
piece OF muscle that was lonr enough.
he spliccd ii With silk and let nature,
80 bnSdt ana make good new
muscle tissue out Of the silk
He showed what he had ACCOMPLISHED
with poor little twisted and "rl,hbed"
feet by doing things to bones ana
muscles. There was one pair OF clubs
that had gotten turned clean around.
With the toes back where the heels
ought to be, and there was Il pair OF
legs that in some childhood injury
that easily, could have been corrected,
one over the other. so that the "irl
bad TO walk through life with her left
sShe. right. one on the left side.
% "hulnpbaeks' and twissed spin@s
gave the public health workers care
1ui instructions relative TO symptoms
Il look Tor in examining children all over
the State.
Assist Muscles to Function.
/ ~. Clever cOntrivanceS. TO assist tho
h MUSCLES in fumctioning. without the aid
OF crntehes Were depicted ana cN-
-tn Is about cases OF infantile paralysis
:'rki mistakes that We're made in hay
INF children walk too soon IN the "r-
totts, OF anxious parents TO determine
w1eth"r or not they would tie able to
wJlk at all There is ease in the
n, Child who could not wall, AZ ali. ana
would not he able 10 walk for many
months. because he was allowed 10
OF infantile paralysis while the sore
ness sim was in his muscles
u iit .l'cculliT horror OF inns disease
was shown IN another slide where
the child could not stand at all but
4 was left TO crawl through life on his
hands and knees. There we're no
muscles Or. Graham said that could
8be borrowed from any part Of the poor
Bnttle body TO remedy matters so he
80 m out those In the knees, so Chat
thru, tn" Child must stand erect
to e.: he could not bend his knees
tain con arguing that il WAS better
ces TIT knees through life than
rt aIlble to stand nj all.
s 81, Pleckar. registrar Of the
bureau OF Nitnl statistics, followed Dr.
S,,aI IN 'a!k on the relation OF
4 the. state Board OF Health
Miss Mamie Minor led the discus
sion OF The Social Service Aspact of
y Public Health Nursing" which was the
& subject Of the symposium for nurses
Whlch concluded Yesterdays program
i OF the state conference.
K - On lOdHy's rrogram
4 Among wcil-knowu speakers whose
G addresses will feature today's program
y are DrS. Roy * Flanagan w +
rs Drupcr. q. :. Rotc. j. W. COS. Nv y,
q GatY Il. G. Happier. II wallace.
4 II r Shackleford, Of the headquarters
n IYealth, and field workers from differ
cent counties. and districts
- Mrs Mary Moore Davis. assistant
s. director OF the extension division OF
& The virginia Polytechnic Institute and
~ STAR Agricultural College. mt Rlacks-
gSpurf rs on the program today for an
&aadof e!S on the relation Of the state
'Mof the State Health Department
Nhcrc win he no afternoon session
sSof thc conferences
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