In 1938 New York had roughly seven million people and the FDNY had ONE ambulance. Wow.
New Hospital on Wheels
By John E. Lodge
BRINGS FIRST AID TO MEN WHO FIGHT NEW YORK’S FIRES FIVE-ALARM FIRE! Thirty-five engines and trucks racing through the streets before dawn. Three hundred crack smoke eaters battling a block-square conflagration. That was the scene, a few weeks ago, when 3,000,000 feet of lumber in a big Brooklyn, N.Y., yard turned into billowing clouds of smoke and darting streamers of flame.
For hours, the firemen fought to keep the blaze from spreading. One man was carried out with a broken leg. Another was hurried from the scene with blood streaming from a gashed hand. Still others staggered about with eyes so inflamed they could hardly see. By the time the blaze was under control, twenty-one firemen were on the injured list. In aiding them, New York City’s new $10,000 fire ambulance—an amazingly complete, ninety-mile-an-hour hospital on wheels—played an important part. The big fire was its spectacular initiation into service. Read the rest of this entry »
I would say no to the first and maybe to the second. However there is some dispute about Willetta Huggins’ abilities. Her claims were tested and at least partially validated by reputable scientists, of the day. However, Willetta fully recovered her hearing and vision a few years later and attributed the miraculous recovery to the healing power of Christian Science which lends a lot of credence to the idea that she never was blind or deaf.
At least that’s what it says in The Unseen Minority: A Social History of Blindness in the United States
Can We See with Our Noses And Hear with Our Fingers?
Amazing Feats of 17-Year-Old Blind and Deaf Girl, Who Smells Colors and Feels Sound, Convince Scientists that Unused Powers Lie Asleep in Our Senses
CAN we learn to see with our noses? Can we learn to hear with our finger tips? Can we develop eyes in the backs of our heads or wherever else we happen to need them?
The amazing case of Willetta Huggins, the 17-year-old blind and deaf girl of Janesville, Wis., makes these questions much less fantastic than they would have seemed a year ago. For Willetta can do some of these things.
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For some reason the idea of a tooth transplant creeps me out way more than a blood transfusion or even and organ transplant.
HOW ABOUT TOOTH BANKS?
Dental scientists are working on a new boon to mankind—the transplantation of live teeth.
BY LESTER DAVID
SQUINT for a moment into the crystal ball labeled “Dental Science’s Coming Attractions.” Here’s the image: Sorrowful-looking gent shuffles into dentist’s office, points miserably to aching molar, sits down and opens wi—ide.
Dentist gives him the needle, inserts forceps, yanks mightily. He throws away old tooth and goes to cabinet for new one. He selects nice, shiny molar from collection, plants it in patient’s mouth and sends him on his way.
About a month or so later, new tooth has established nerve, bone and blood vessel connections with jaw and happy patient has a live, serviceable chomper in his head to replace the one extracted.
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This is GENIUS. I’m going to buy an old Gravitron and charge an arm and a leg for centrifugalization treatment.
Old Age Rejuvenator Centrifuge
PERHAPS Ponce de Leon kept too far south in his search for the Fountain of Youth. He might have headed to Coney Island and there made himself young riding on a carousel, or a roller coaster, if a medical theory recently advanced is true—that, since old age is our final yielding to the inevitable, resistless pull of gravity, it is necessary only to overcome gravity and you overcome all that brings you down to earth. In describing trips to other planets, writers of science fiction have pictured the space travelers first crushed under intolerable weight during a few moments of ascent from the earth; then overwhelmed by a feeling of lightness, when all weight disappears. Indeed, there has been fear that too little gravity might have injurious effects on our bodies, unaccustomed to such a weightless condition; and that it would be as necessary to supply artificial gravity in a space ship as it would be to supply artificial air. However, no one seems to doubt that on the moon, or on Mars, freedom from the weariness of earthly weight would be pleasant.
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