Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1901 — Call Ailment Tunnel Knee. [ARTICLE]

Call Ailment Tunnel Knee.

“Tunnel knee” is the latest Harlem (N. Y.) disease In certain sections, and it seems likely to take rank with the “bicycle face” and other like ailments. It is caused by the blasting in the rapid transit subway work. Pedestrians on Lenox avenue were the first to get “tunnel knee,” and it appears coincident with the setting off of a blast. As this is done at intervals from 6 o’clock in the morning until midnight, few escape. The symptoms are an irresistible desire on the part of one’s knees to wabble and slip from under, allowing the pedestrian to sit down suddenly in the middle of the street.