South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-06-26
RUSSIAN PHYSICIAN
ASKS AMERICAN AID
FOR MANY CRIPPLES
DR.. Tregubow Will Visit L. s.
IN Search of Models for
Artificial Limbs.

KHARKOE Russia. June 25. -
There is am eminent surgeon I'm this
city-one Of the worlds famed or
thopoedists-who is eagerly awaiting
permission and financial assiSfa re
from the Soviet government to en-
able him to make a rapid trip TO the
United States and return. He de-
sires 20 obtain models OF the latest
American inventions o. artificial
arms and legs and bring them back
TO Russia for use among the in
Vulnerable war cripples OF this
country He is DR.. Tregubow
I'm no place in the world is there
such great demand for arms and
legs as in South Russia" said Dr.
Tregubow today. The need here il
colossal" he declared, with emphs
sis. The wars. both external and
internal, have left a vast army of
men in Russia who cannot make
their way because their arms cid
legs have been shot of. isaving
them helpless. They sit al home. OF
lin hospitals many starving and dy-
ing because they do not have the
artificial replacement for their nat
ural members. We have a factory
TO manufacture these here in Khar-
kov, if only we can get the models
and some of the necessary mate
rails In America"
Disease Is Rampant.
DR.. Tregubow stated that the war
was not the only cause of cripples
in Russia. Infectious diseases. es-
pecially typhus, affect the bones Of
the body and frequently cause them
to become diseased and decayed
Because of the exceptionally high
typhus epidemic during the last few
years the number 81 persons with
destructive diseases of the bones
has increased. thus augmenting Rus
sia's need for artificial arms and
legs.
The United States is familiar to
DR.. Tregubow. He has been there
several times and is we'll acquainted
with many of Americas best-known
specialists i'm orthopOedic surgery.
Among the latter whom he expects
to see on his prospective visit to
America are Or. Gibney of New
York City and DR.. Lovett of Boston.
DR.. TregubOw is a graduate Of
Russian university and took post
graduate courses under DR.. Hoffe of
Berlin and DR.. Lorenz Of Vienna.
He is now professor of orthopoedics
in the medical institute OF the Uni
versity at Kharkov.
Aids Relief Work.
He has given much assistance TO
George 2. Harrington, Of Boston,
district supervisor Of the American
Relief administration at Kharkov,
and Or. Frank Lyman, OF Duluth,
supervisor Of medical relief for the
district The A. r. A has been de-
livering food packages in Kharkov
since Jan. Il. and the daily total
now numbers 200.
Orders have been issued from the
American Relief administration
headquarters 20 organize kitchens
to feed 10000 children in this dis
trict. one of the first that Will be
organized will be a kitchen 10 feed
The refugee children who lie around
on the station platforms, or crawl
among the freight trains looking for
any mite Of food Many Of them
are nearly dead when they reach
here after their fight from the ia
mine villages o. the Ukraine and
Crimea. and they die within a few
hours or DAYS It is said that FIVE
dead bodies are carried out OF this
station every day Most any hour
that one walks through the station
or railway yards one sees a stretcher
being carried by sanitary corps at
tengants.