. A treatise on Marks' patent artificial limbs with rubber hands and feet. atesmall fruit (strawberries, raspberries and blackberries, currants and goose-berries). I do all the hoeing, pruning, and a good part of the picking of the,fruit. I am a carpenter by trade, and work at the business when not engaged in myfruit garden. I climb up and down ladders when at work on houses. Pointof amputation at the middle third (or eight inches from the body). My weightis about 132 pounds. The leg I am now using is the second leg of your make, and the third alltold since 1864 ; my limb was amputated 1863. I
. A treatise on Marks' patent artificial limbs with rubber hands and feet. atesmall fruit (strawberries, raspberries and blackberries, currants and goose-berries). I do all the hoeing, pruning, and a good part of the picking of the,fruit. I am a carpenter by trade, and work at the business when not engaged in myfruit garden. I climb up and down ladders when at work on houses. Pointof amputation at the middle third (or eight inches from the body). My weightis about 132 pounds. The leg I am now using is the second leg of your make, and the third alltold since 1864 ; my limb was amputated 1863. I am very well satisfied with your make of leg, especially the rubber foot, andif this one gives out before I do I will sure y have you make the next. R. Stephenson. 216 A. A. MAEKS, ARTIFICIAL LIMBS, NEW YOEK CITY. LEG ABOVE KNEE. (A Coal Miner by Occupation.) Van Meter, Dallas Co., Iowa, Oct. 29, A. A. Marks : Dear Sir :—I have used one of your patent limbs for six years, and am wellsatisfied with it. I am a coal miner by occupation. I think that your rubber. foot is a splendid success ; it suits me A No. 1. I never tried any other, or do Iwish to, as long as I can get one of your make. Mine is an upper amputation ;I have nine inches of a stump ; I can walk almost as fast as any ordinary would advise persons needing artificial limbs to buy them from vou. S. LEG ABOVE KNEE. Fitted from Measurements. Salina, Saline Co., Kansas, Nov. 1, A. Marks, New York : Dear Sir :—I have worn one of your legs for the past two years, and it hasgiven entire satisfaction ; it has never been out of repair and is now nearly asgood as new. Its especial excellence is the india-rubber foot. A. A. MARKS, ARTIFICIAL LIMBS, NEW YORK CITY. 217 I had worn four legs in the twenty-four years from 1865 to 1885, and althoughwell made for their kind, not one of them ever lasted over two months withoutthe ankle-cord giving way and the inside machinery breaking, leaving nothin
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