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Show FIVE MONTH8 IN PLASTER. Baby with Double Pre-Natal Dislocation Disloca-tion Made Perfect. Chester, N. Y, Mary Lascomb, throo years old, aftor undergoing ono of tho most remarkable operntlons over performed per-formed In this country, will bo discharged dis-charged from (ho Crozer hospital In n few days. The child wns discovered nearly a yenr ago by a local physician, who ascertained thnt sho wns suffering suffer-ing with a double congenital dislocation disloca-tion of the hip Joints, n surlotiB pro-natal pro-natal condition, fioiu which no child has over recovorcd thoroughly by other oth-er than surgical treatment, and this In mnny instances has failed, until tho famous bloodless method, ns demonstrated dem-onstrated by Loronz, becamo known. Tho enso of Mary Lascomb was placed In tho hands of Dr, D. I', Mad-llox, Mad-llox, who called Into consultation Dr. Herhort L. Northrop, dean of tho Hahnemann medical college, Philadelphia, Phila-delphia, nnd It was decided to ndopt I tho Loronr mothod. The hips und legs wero plnccd In position and kept In a plaster cast for five months, tho cast being removed re-moved from tlmo to tlmo. Now Mnry Is nblo to romp along tho concroto floors of tho hospital corridors, having hav-ing boeu. transformed from a hopeless crlpplo into nn actlvo child. |