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Show NEW MENTION : TO AIDGR1PPLES i Sometimes, when crippled and bedridden, people Imagine things. , And often something comas of it. I So It I with Walter M. Hudson, a I patient at th Salt Lake county gen- ' oral hospital, who, aftsr ysars of ; paralytic arthritis, cams through i Thursday with a "walking whssl- j chair," claimed by hospital attsnd-anta attsnd-anta and official to be a boon to those wh live la wheelchairs be-eaus be-eaus of Dsrvou and orthopedic disordsrs. s Mr. Hudson, sine youth wracked with th pain and agony of arthritis, announced that hs ha been working work-ing on plana for th chair during hi year of confinement at th hospital hos-pital and that a patent had been granted for hi wheelchair. "The machine," he declared, "is designed to aid th cripple to walk with comfort a much aa possible without any assistance and with complete safety." Th new chair, according to Dr. R. J, Alexander, county physician, who encouraged Mr. Hudson whsn h saw ths plans a year ago and who bad a working model constructed for too, is ths first of Its kind and "will open an entirely new field in treatment of many types of dtsor- ders." Briefly, th chair I different from th ordinary wheelchair In that the patient can get up and "walk" the chair If he so desires by means of crutches built Into the framework. Looking like a box made of pipe, th machine I placed In front of th patient. If be wants to walk, than the crutches ars swung upwsrd. adjustsd to his height and arm length and so built as tonabls him to support his weight on armpits, hands or feet. Locomotion la achieved by moving the legs. Whsn tired of walking the patient can turn down an adjustabls seat, remove the crutches, rest his feet on the footrail and relax In comfort com-fort and safety. " Mr. Hudson deslgnsd ths machine for htmsslf because wheelchairs, for his malady, were inadequate. Later, when plana were pronounced pro-nounced workable and ths machine actually built, ha declared: "Thi chair la for every cripple. I hope It will mak many of them happy." |