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Dr. F. C. Allen,

Head Coach, Basketball,
University of Kansas.
Lawrence, Kansas.

Dear Dr. Allen:

From reliable authority I have learned that you are one of the foremost
exponents in the United States on the subject of the immediate treatment and
subsequent care of athletic injuries; therefore, I know that you realize the
importance of the use of heat in treating the many sprains, muscular strains
and bruises your players incur.

The singular performance of your basketball quintets for the major part
of the last two decades is conclusive proof that you have devoted much of your
time to the study of caring for their injuries. It is only sensible to believe
that you feel a player, given immediate and proper attention for his bruises,
aching muscles and sensitive joints, is the sooner playing at his full capacity
again. For the same reason, it is self-evident that you are open, not to new, .
untried methods of treatment, but to new, proven methods. So, may I take this
opportunity to place before you heat therapy treatment as practiced in the
Richardson Heat Therapy Cabinet of the reclining type?

- This cabinet embodies all the beneficial qualities of heat lamps; the
therapeutic bulbs emit yellow, red and infra-red rays which stimulate the
sensory and motor nerves and penetrate into the deeper tissues; the heating
element produces a moist heat, thus setting up the proper functioning of the
sweat glands. Its use for simple sweat baths to flush toxic poisons through
the pores, which handle 50% of the body's elimination, and intensify blood
circulation in the body to increase circulation in congested areas, is enough
to merit some note for its use in training rooms. General application of
heat and gentle massage of a congested area are far superior to local ap-
plication of heat and strenuous rubdown, for the latter often bruises muscle
tissue to a greater extent than prior to the rubdow.

Perhaps you have seen the sweat cabinet in use in Nebraska University's
football training room? The Richardson cabinet is of much the same type,
but by reason of its recently improved design, far excels the one in use
there, both in performance and appearance; further, our cabinet is simpler
to operate and more complete in its function. The significant point is that
this treatment is worthy of use for the static conditioning of athletes.
The use of this cabinet in the training rooms of Kansas University, would
mark its athletic department as a forward-looking body, with particular
reference to the conditioning of men for the athletic field.

Only the most noteworthy and proven materials are used in the man-
ufacture of this cabinet:

Westinghouse Lifetime Micarta Board, exterior
Armco, 8-18 Stainless Steel, interior
Chromalox custom-built heating elements
Munder Therapeutic bulbs

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