LEARNING TO WALK AGAIN
A child of 3J is learning to walk again ou an artificial leg built for him by the people who made a new pair for the legless air ace, Wing Commander Bader. He is a small boy named Ronnie Osmond, who lost a leg only a year or two alter he first learned to walk. It . was found difficult at first to get Ronnie to put his heart into learning to walk-all over again. Then someone in the works had the idea of giving him a miniature walking-stick made of duralumin. Rounie was fascinated with his little tubular stick, aud at once wanted to try it. Now his nurses notice that when walking by himself he will sometimes change the stick from one hand to the other, sure proof that he cun walk without it.
The makers of the tiny leg al 'e as pleased as he is. They build and tit 5000 artificial legs a year, and Bader, their most famous patient, whose legs have been supplied and repnired by them since 1934. visited their fitting room only a fortnight before he hud bale out of his machine ‘over occupied France.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 287, 2 September 1942, Page 3
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196LEARNING TO WALK AGAIN Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 287, 2 September 1942, Page 3
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