. A treatise on artificial limbs with rubber hands and feet ... was seated or being carried, andthus force the stump to move at the knee. In a few months the childbegan to creep. The mother was surprised one morning to find herstanding by a chair, putting a share of her weight on the artificial A. A. MARKS, ARTIFICIAL LIMBS, NEW YORK CITY. 197 leg. It was not long before she began to walk, then run and leg was lengthened quite frequently, and enlarged several she was about five years old the leg was renewed. At thiswriting (1896) she is fourteen years of age, runs or romps
. A treatise on artificial limbs with rubber hands and feet ... was seated or being carried, andthus force the stump to move at the knee. In a few months the childbegan to creep. The mother was surprised one morning to find herstanding by a chair, putting a share of her weight on the artificial A. A. MARKS, ARTIFICIAL LIMBS, NEW YORK CITY. 197 leg. It was not long before she began to walk, then run and leg was lengthened quite frequently, and enlarged several she was about five years old the leg was renewed. At thiswriting (1896) she is fourteen years of age, runs or romps about thesame as other children, goes to school, and is as happy and jollyas other children. Although her parents are in moderate circum-stances, they have never regretted that an artificial leg was appliedwhen the child was young. On the contrary, they realize that bytheir timely attention to her needs, they have preserved a goodstump and retained a valuable knee motion, and they enjoy theconsolation of having performed their duty in putting their child in a.
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