Abstract: An improved method and apparatus for stimulating the growth and healing of living, especially human, tissues, promoting the healing of wounds and skeletal fractures. An electrical apparatus consists of a baseplate, made of lightweight nonconductive material, for encompassing all or a portion of a body member. A multiplicity of generally evenly spaced holes are provided in the baseplate and a probe adapter including a moveable electrically conductive probe is situated within the holes, as desired. An electric contact connects the interior of each adapter and the probe situated therein to a terminal on the baseplate. Each probe is individually adjustable to contact the wearer's body part within the base member regardless configuration of the body part, thus allowing treatment of all or a selected portion of the body part.

Abstract: The hierarchy of the hyphenation points in a word is considered and the amount of space remaining in the line where the hyphenated word is to fit is determined, thus selecting the best hyphenation point for the word. Instead of selecting the last possible hyphen within the hot zone, the hot zone is scanned to find hyphenation points that may be better than the last hyphen within the hot zone. The higher a hyphenation point is in the hierarchy, the more preferred is the hyphen.