The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-25

in almost as many places as natures COM
plicated werk 50 - to allow OF great
variety OF movements. Indeed, the
variety Of these movements and the sim
plicity with which they are brought
acout Is astonishing. There seems hardly
a limit TO the possibilities of an artificial
limb when added below the elbow Joint or
below the knee Joint. You hear of man
who has lost both his legs continuing
none the less in his trade of house car
penter, going up and down ladders, work
ing on scaffoldings, and so on with the
best.
You are shown letters written by a
hand of wood and you are told that these
have little difficulty in the common
paper, taking off and putting on a
hat, using knife and fork,
and so on. There is man in Hartford
who plays the violin though the right
arm was taken OFF three inches below the
shoulder. Thus one manufacturer. An
other, a sturdy German, casts doubt upon
these statements. He thinks they are sell
dom as satisfactory as the legs, unless
when the elbow Joint has been preserved
1t is true that even those Joined below the
shoulder can be made to do many things,
but at the cost of such effort and fatigue
to the wearer as to lead him to abandon
fine, expensive pair of arms may be seen
hanging up. They were made for the
proprietor of the shop, who did not find
them very useful and is trying to make
them ornamental.
A queer thing about these places is that
the man in Chicago is generally himself
fitted out with pair of wooden legs. He
will tell you how his were carried of by
a cannon ball at Antietam, or crushed in
hal
some wintry wreck if he was a sailorman.
He will roll up his trousers and display
his means Of locomotion on the slightest
encouragement, and he will tell you
how he can walk twenty miles or carry
barrels of flour across the street without
fatigue The manufacturers must make
a point of securing crippled men to show
their wares. And either they are at the
pains of picking out especially healthy
specimens or else what remains of the
man has added to it the strength of the
lost limbs. Anyhow they always look
particularly robust.
FOLLOWING THE BLAZED PATH OF SURGERY.
You hear a great deal about appliances
suited to Perigoff's, Syme's, or Chopart's
amputation. these being certain much
used "cuts," to employ a stockyard s
term, called after the surgeon who origi-
mated them. Now, the father of modern
surgery was one Ambrose Pare, a sturdy
old Huguenot of the 10th century. He
was special physician to the Valois kings
of France. His great skill obliged this
iuky and cruel race to overlook his con-
scientious adherence to the reformed
faith. Even on the frightful day of St.
Bartholomew, when Paris ran with blood
of his coreligionists, Ambrose Pare was
spared TO watch over the failing health
of the wretched Charles TX. In the
twelfth chapter of his work on chirurgery
is described by what means arms, legs
and hands may be made by art and placed
instead of the natural arms, legs and
hands that are cut off or lost.
Nearly fifty years before Ambrose
Pare's day there lived a German knight,
Gotz Won Berlichingen, famous for reck-
less courage and strange mixture of
cruelty and magnanimity. He was gen
orally known as "Gotz of the Iron Hand -
and some Of his fercest fighting was done
with an artificial hand made of steel,
weighing three pounds and so ingen-
iously constructed by mechanic Of an
cient Nuremberg as to grasp sword or a
lance. Way back three centuries before
the birth of Christ the Romans, who knew
all that NE moderns q know except for a
few triaes, like steam power, eleetricsty,
and the printingopress-wel they, too,
had crafty made artificial limbs A very
neat one Of bronze and wood was discov-
cred in the tomb of Roman soldier at
Capua. At all events, no Roman dancing
girl ever thought of the curious use of an
artificial leg by which Miss Dorothy Den
ming amused and puzzled the New York
public all last winter with her high kick
ing, and her splits, - and the like, in de-
fiance of the laws of ANATOMY