Lewis Sayre's 1882 apparatus for treating tuberculous spondylitis

No, this is not a device for readjusting to normal locomotion after emerging from a three-month sofa quarantine. All the more so as we have no such emergence to look forward to just yet. This is an advertisement for an apparatus of 1882 devised by Lewis Sayre. The American orthopaedist and surgeon invented this tripod, with fittings for the armpits, for sufferers from tuberculous spondylitis, or Pott's disease; the apparatus was subsequently used to treat other disorders of the musculoskeletal system as well.

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

In the finale of the Strugatskys' Roadside Picnic, the Golden Ball is told: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to offend nobody, but the digest really does come free of charge. So, here is the main business of the

Frederic Leighton

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Lewis Sayre's 1882 apparatus for treating tuberculous spondylitis

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s