Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1902 — THE KING AND HIS TRAPEZE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE KING AND HIS TRAPEZE.

This picture, drawn from cabled descriptions and from descriptions furnished by a physician, shows the apparatus by which King Edward, after undergoing one of the severest operations known to medical science, and with a wound in his abdomen four inclrs long and still unhealed, moved himself around in his bed by the strength of his own arms. He changed his position many times within a few hours after the trapeze had been erected above his bed, and even raised himself to a sitting posture. The first time the King moved himself, Queen Alexandra herself adjusted the pillows at his back and, relieved by this change in position, the King exclaimed, "Ah, that is better.’’ The trapeze consists of two ropes suspended from the ceiling above the King’s bed. with rings at the end within easy reach of the recumbent patient. Sometimes a bar is fitted between the two rings. The trapeze is especially useful in such a case as that of King Edward, as it enables the patient to change his position with the least possible movement to abdominal and back muscles.