. A treatise on artificial limbs with rubber hands and feet ... and a No. 661 to the left. This man wasrestored to his ability to engage in his former occupation of oyster-man. The cut represents Mr. Mills in a boat, raking for oysters onLong Island Sound. He says that he has devoted fifteen years tothe oyster business, doing the work himself. During that time hehas raked as many oysters, worked as many hours, and has actuallydone as much work as most of his fellow-oystermen who were inpossession of their natural limbs. 138 A. A. MARKS, ARTIFICIAL LIMBS, NEW YORK CITY. Cut No. 740 represents a
. A treatise on artificial limbs with rubber hands and feet ... and a No. 661 to the left. This man wasrestored to his ability to engage in his former occupation of oyster-man. The cut represents Mr. Mills in a boat, raking for oysters onLong Island Sound. He says that he has devoted fifteen years tothe oyster business, doing the work himself. During that time hehas raked as many oysters, worked as many hours, and has actuallydone as much work as most of his fellow-oystermen who were inpossession of their natural limbs. 138 A. A. MARKS, ARTIFICIAL LIMBS, NEW YORK CITY. Cut No. 740 represents a double amputation—right leg amputatedthrough the knee-joint and the left at the ankle. In this casepressure could be carried on the extremities of both stumps. No. 559leg was applied to the right side and a No. 638 leg to the left side. Cut No. 741 represents Mr. Sterner with artificial legs applied, andCut No. 742 represents him attired as he appears in daily life. Hewalks naturally, and attends to a laborious occupation without diffi-culty or
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