Prosthetic Hook
notes: label: Description
content: “Loss of a right arm would take much out of the life of most people, but not to J. W. Dorrance (sic) of San Jose, Cal. In a week after a loss of a right arm in a sawmill accident some years ago, Dorrance was back on the job with a hook of his own invention. He patented the article and now they are being distributed all over the country from Dorrance’s small San Jose shop.” The reference here was to David W. Dorrance (1856-1933), who developed a prosthetic device, the first of several, in the 1890s. The inscription on this prosthetic hook reads “DORRANCE / PATENTED”.
label: Description
content: Ref: “His Loss Benefits,” Imperial Valley Press (Jan. 22, 1931), p. 5.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine, Prostheses
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.1026.063
label: accession number
content: 1978.1026
label: catalog number
content: 1978.1026.063
objectType: label: Object Name
content: terminal device
label: Object Name
content: prosthetic, hook