. A treatise on artificial limbs with rubber hands and feet ... No. 566. No. 567. Thigh stumps that extend to the knees that are tapering and non-end-bearing are those that result from amputations in the knee artic-ulations with condyles removed, patellas either absent or displaced,the natural coverings to the bones at the extremities removed, and theends of the stumps incapable of bearing weight. This condition is»ot always the result of imperfect surgery; it is more frequently due 64 A. A. MARKS, ARTIFICIAL LIMBS, NEW YORK CITY. to sloughing or some affection of the bone. The No. 549 leg, il
. A treatise on artificial limbs with rubber hands and feet ... No. 566. No. 567. Thigh stumps that extend to the knees that are tapering and non-end-bearing are those that result from amputations in the knee artic-ulations with condyles removed, patellas either absent or displaced,the natural coverings to the bones at the extremities removed, and theends of the stumps incapable of bearing weight. This condition is»ot always the result of imperfect surgery; it is more frequently due 64 A. A. MARKS, ARTIFICIAL LIMBS, NEW YORK CITY. to sloughing or some affection of the bone. The No. 549 leg, illustra-trated on page 54, is applied to such stumps. Cut No. 563 represents a thigh stump extending to the knee, theend incapable of bearing pressure, the condyles and all the naturalcoverings to the bone removed at the operation. Bunches of tissueor ganglia were gathered at the extremity and back of the stump,the integumentary tissues had puckered considerably, and the presenceof cicatrices on and about the end all conspired to make it extremelysensitive, h
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