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A treatise on artificial limbs with rubber hands and feet: containing a brief history of prothesis, descriptions of rubber feet and artificial legs, rubber hands and artificial arms, apparatus for deformities, etc. : an argument on the advisibility of applying artificial legs to growing children and to the aged, the longevity of the maimed, amputations prothetically considered, and the relation of prothesis to surgery, etc., etc., etc. : together with awards from industrial expositions, testimonials from physicians and patrons