Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-07-11
ARTIFICIAL LIMBS.
Ancients Had Substitutes For
Human Arms and Legs.
SILVER NOSES CENTURIES AGO
P'inlus Told of Roman Soldier Who
$50 8. c. Had Wooden Hand-Man
Fitted Out With a Mechanical Face
Exhibited In French Academy.

$50 3. C. Had Wooden Hand-Man
Fitted Out With Mechanical Face
Exhibited In French Academy.
Should the crab and the lobster lose
a limb as the result Of accident. attack
or strife, kindly nature at once sets
to work to supply the individual with
a fresh member quite as good. if not
better, than its predecessor.
But man has to rely upon his wits
to make good such losses. Many of
the artificial aids now obtainable are
regarded as essential products of mod
ern times; but, as q matter Of fact
appliances of this kind are by no
means modern. In the museum of the
Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's
Inn Fields, London, there is an arti-
fetal leg, made about 300 b. c.. Of
bronze. wood and iron. Again, who
has not heard of the famous iron
hand made in Nuremberg, Germany,
in 1904, for the German knight, Gotz
Won Berlichingen? Among the old
time Indians ears. noses and lips of
plaster We're quite common one Of
their ordinary punishmentS being to
cut off these useful parts of the hui
man anatomy. Greek and Roman vet
Grams who had lost a leg or an arm in
the wars used to replace them by very
capable substitutes. and Plinius speaks
Of a Roman soldier who (about $50
years B. c. was famous for his wood
ell hand with which he was still able
to fight as an able swordsman.
Artificial limbs with movable joints
were largely made by the famous Am
broise Pare O517 to 1900. the celebrat-
ed French surgeon known as the ia
Their Of French surgery" He was sur
geon to Henry III. O552) and also tc
Francis H.. Charles IN. and Henry Ill
Later on Father Sebastian. Il Carmel
ite monk, was renowned for the manu-.
facture OF movable arms and hands.
-Abpul lhC VI Tic seventeen
century Falcinell. a Florentine sur
geon, mentions artificial eyes of gold
silver and crystal painted in different
cOOrs. He also describes gold and sill
yer ears. which were either tied to the
head with strings or else sewed on the
skin of the scalp by the aid of gold
and silver wire. Silver noses are spo-
ken Of also as having been in use for a
long time.
OF the more concealed members we
may mention artificial feet, which vary
considerably in construction, material
and price. After what is known as a
Heys or a Chopart's operation Qeav-
Ing the heel or a part of the sole Of the
FOOT the main idea is to make a pre-
sentable appearance with q cork filed
boot In cases of higher amputation
where an artificial ankle joint is need
ed, it may take the form of transitive
rod working in a socket or of two
rule JOINTS" one on either side of the
stump. The lateral yielding Of foot
is sometimes initiated by side springs
which yield to lateral pressure.
One of the greatest triumphs ever re.
ported in this curious industry is I'M
doubtedly the mechanical face worn by
man whom DR.. Delair "a French
DOCTOR exhibited recently to the mem.
berS of the French Medical academy
Owing to the accidental discharge of
fowling piece the whole lower portion
of this mans face was destroyed and a
portion of the tongue badly damaged,
but by a marvellous piece of mech
aniSm the patient had his appearance
restored to him. The mechanism con-
SiStS Of four parts-in the first place,
of a silver grooved case in which the
lower row of artificial teeth are fixed,
attached to a tin device containing the
upper teeth, There is also second
part Of indurated rubber and gold to
hold the upper front teeth, the whole
terminating in two small hornlike pegs,
shaped so as to hook into the nostrils.
The third part consists of the chin and
lower lip. which are made of special
soft rubber painted in flesh tint in a
most deceptive manner. The chin is
also covered by a false beard. At the
back of this portion there are several
small screws which pass through holes
in the tooth holders and thus join the
chin and lip to the artificial upper jaw
and palate. The fourth and last piece
is the upper lip and nose, also made of
flash tinted soft ruhber and covered
with false muStache.