A system of surgery : pathological, diagnostic, therapeutic, and operative . bility, and strength, admits of lateral motion at the ankle, in imitation of thenatural joint, and is, in all respects, constructed upon strictly anatomical princi-ples. The annexed drawing, fig. IlO, conveys a good idea of the artificial limbusually worn by the laboring classes after the loss of a leg or thigh. It may homade very light, and, when the stump is of proper length, affords an admirablesubstitute, the person being abte to walk nearly with the same facility as in thenatural state. Yarious attempts have been
A system of surgery : pathological, diagnostic, therapeutic, and operative . bility, and strength, admits of lateral motion at the ankle, in imitation of thenatural joint, and is, in all respects, constructed upon strictly anatomical princi-ples. The annexed drawing, fig. IlO, conveys a good idea of the artificial limbusually worn by the laboring classes after the loss of a leg or thigh. It may homade very light, and, when the stump is of proper length, affords an admirablesubstitute, the person being abte to walk nearly with the same facility as in thenatural state. Yarious attempts have been made to construct artificial hands and arms. , after many trials, has devised a limb, fig. 180, which, in point of neat-ness and adaptability, leaves hardly anything to be desired upon the subject. SECT. VIII. MORTALITY AFTER AMPUTATIONS. The mortality from amputations is so much influenced by extraneous andintrinsic circumstances, and requires such a vast amount of statistical materialfor comparison and contrast, that it is extremely difficult, if not impossibl
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