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Medicine: Physical Therapy

Odors of roast beef, warm rubber and ozone pervaded the 22nd floor of the Kansas City (Mo.) Hotel Kansas Citian last week. The odors arose from electric knives, heat applicators and ultraviolet light generators in operation. Those machines and a variety of similar medical machines, ornamented with shiny chromium and nickel, dials, gauges, thermometers, bulbs, motors, rheostats, pedals, levers, knobs and buttons were working because 400 physicians who are sincerely trying to put physical therapy on a respectable basis in the U. S. met in Kansas City to conduct a Congress of...

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