Popular Science Monthly 



653 



v. 



"I'm lame in one foot. Can't 

 walk without a cane," he pro- 

 tested. The doctor boosted 

 him up on a chair and looked at 

 his heels. They were both 

 worn down exactly alike prov- 

 ing that both feet were normal 



"I'm deaf in the left ear." The doctor plugged up the right tube of a 

 stethoscope and asked Ctto if he could hear the watch ticking. He could. 

 "You hear it with your deaf ear," said the doctor. And so the army got him 



Is Hard. Everywhere 

 ious Medical Traps in 

 Ensnared and Betrayed 



He said that he 

 couldn't hold 

 anything in his 

 fingers. "We'll 

 take you," was 

 the doctor's 

 verdict. "Look at the nicotine 

 (Stain. You can hold cigarettes, 

 and so you can hold a rifle" 

 One arm and one side com- 

 pletely paralyzed — so he said. 

 He did not know that there are 

 electric reactions of the mus- 

 cles. The little electric battery 

 on the table in the pic- 

 ture below betrayed him 



"Something's the matter with my heart,'-' protes 

 slacker. The doctor takes his blood pressure, 

 heart action is perfect. Another slacker goes to 



He said he was deaf. They dropped an iron chair. 

 He never moved. "You are faking," said they. 

 'A deaf man would uimp from the vibration" 



