. A treatise on artificial limbs with rubber hands and feet ... S FOR ABOVE-ELBOWAMPUTATIONS. Cut No. 942 represents an artificial arm suitable for an amputationbelow the shoulder and above the elbow. Cut No. 943 represents thesame flexed. The socket and forearm are made of wood. Both areexcavated, the former to fit the stump and the latter to reduce are covered with parchment to obtain strength, and are beautifully No. enameled by a natural-tint preparation. The hand is of rubber, aspreviously described, and capable of being attached to the arm byspindle, ball-and-socket, mortise-
. A treatise on artificial limbs with rubber hands and feet ... S FOR ABOVE-ELBOWAMPUTATIONS. Cut No. 942 represents an artificial arm suitable for an amputationbelow the shoulder and above the elbow. Cut No. 943 represents thesame flexed. The socket and forearm are made of wood. Both areexcavated, the former to fit the stump and the latter to reduce are covered with parchment to obtain strength, and are beautifully No. enameled by a natural-tint preparation. The hand is of rubber, aspreviously described, and capable of being attached to the arm byspindle, ball-and-socket, mortise-and-tennon joints, or by being rigidlyconnected. The latter is preferable when minimum weight is anobject. The arm is capable of being locked at the elbow and, when thestump is not too long, it is made to rotate above the elbow. Thelocking attachment is released by pressure applied to the release A. A. MARKS, ARTIFICIAL LIMBS, NEW YORK CITY. 239 button found on the underside of the forearm. Suspenders are ofvarious kinds, mostly as represented in Cut No. No. 943. Cuts Nos. 944 and 945 represent above-elbow amputations, to whichNo. 942 artificial arms have been applied.
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