The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-09-16
A WAY THE JJAiPS HAVE.
SHOWN IN THE MATTER OF MAX.
! ING ARTIFICIAL LIMBS.
why American Manufacturers Are
NOT Likely to Profit by the Russo
Japanese War-American Artificial
limbs Still The Rest Ia The NiarlA

"US oLtii the Best in the World.
VIII the Russo-Japanese war cause
any Increase in the demand for Amer
ican artificial limbs?" was asked of
" view York maker of such appliances.
Not bit" was the reply, cor not
~ Japan, anyway. Whatever artificial
liinps the Japanese may require they
\ Will Duy OF their own makers.
we nave sold some artificial limbs
III Japan, the New York manufactur-
vi continued; Il guess about fifty alto
sether. The first one we ever sold
4heFe was supplied to Japanese no.
oieman, who was also of high rank as
state official, and who lost leg by
the explosion of bomb thrown at
MN by an assassin at the time of the
Cfino-Japanese war.
This leg gave its wearer great sat
lslactlon, and subsequently we sold to
aim duplicates of it; the first and last
we nave sold to various purchasers in
Japan, as | said, about fifty artificial
limbs altogether, but now the demand
Tor them has wholly ceased, for the
Japanese are now making their own.
we print catalogue, which is real
ty book of several hundred pages,
ana which contains, besides cata-
logue OF our productions, a treatise on
A artlnclal limbs and their uses and in
FORMATION concerning them. 1t is IL
lustrated with cuts of artificial limbs
and of various other appliances which
we produce. We send these catalogues
all over the world
Some time age we received from
Japan a reprint of our catalogue, done
IN japanese, put out there by a jap
anese manufacturer of artificial limbs.
He sent number of copies of this
hook and offered to send us more if we
desired them"
This Japanese reprint of the Ameri-
can catalogue is, like the original, a
book of some hundreds of pages, and
1t is bound in boards. 1t is printed on
thin Japanese paper, and in japanese
characters
In this Japanese reprint many Of the
drawings of the original are also repro
duced, the work on these, however, not
being so we'll done as it might be. But
/. the book contains, bound into it. q
number of leaves of plate paper on
which are printed half tone portraits,
these including pictures of some Jap
!, anese wearers of artificial limbs and
Gncluding also a portrait of the found
er of the American concern whose cat
alogue is thus reprinted.
In fact" said the New York manu-
facturer, they gave us in the book the
very fullest credit in every way, but at
the same time they wrote us that they
considered the making of artificial
limbs a humane enterprise, and that
if they required further information
concerning the making of them it
might be that they would write to us
for it. And if they do, dare say that
we shall send it to them.
For their example in reprinting
our catalogue is one not likely to be
followed, and the Japanese trade is
lost to us, anyway. Americas arti-
fetal limbs are the best that are made
in the world anywhere. In lightness,
in the ingenuity of their &C lstruction
and in adaptability to their uses they
excel all others, just as, in their respec-
tive ways, do so many other Ameri-
can inventions in the construction Of
which INGENUITY and skill are involved
"But now, with artificial limbs made
in their own country, the Japanese will
buy no other For they are an intense
~ patriotic people, and however good
ours may be, and whether their own
may be good or bad, the Japanese re-
curing an artificial limb will buy one
only of Japanese make.
But this does not apply everywhere.
There are other patriotic peoples who
ratronize their own, as, for example,
the Germans. And in other countries
they may, so to speak, dissect our
limbs, take them apart to discover and
reproduce their excellences but they
are not likely to go to the extent OF
the Japanese. And, after all, ours re-
main the best, and we will sell them
al! over the world.
'1n many far countries, when any
body has ed for an artificial limb,
he sends for it to where he, can get
the best, and so he is likely to send to
the United States; or, il he was OF
European birth or descent, and SO with
natural inclinations in that direction,
it might be that he would send to
France SO we get orders from every
where, only yesterday for example, We
received an order for an artificial leg
from an interior city of British India.
And. with these sales added to tho
business done in our own country, we