SENSITIVE STEEL HANDS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3033, 21 March 1917, Page 5

SENSITIVE STEEL HANDS

— 1 —. — HOW FRENCH SURGEONS REBUILD WOUNDED SOLDIERS. Some of tbo wonders of physical reconstruotioii tlvifc are being achieved in the treatment of disabled, soldiers in France are described hy Sir Henry Norman, M.P., in a special report fi> the Secretary for War. Particularly successful is the work of Professor Jules Amar, to whom, as lie goes down the street near his hospital in Paris, the .women smile and say, "That's the' man that gave my husband his arm back.", On the day of Sir Henry Norman's Tisit there were in the laboratory three one-armed men who are earning 6s. Bd. a day ,as fitters. One of them while waiting amused himself by turning on a lathe little brass shells, as souvenirs, as well as any turner could have done. ' Professor 'Amar offered a cigarette to one man whose arm had been amputated just below the shoulder. Sir Henry Norman was about to take a, cigarette from his own case in order to hand it to the man, who, saying, "Pardon mo, I can help myself." pr.ee cceded to take one with his steel hand. Placing the cigarette in Iris mouth ho selected a match from a box, struck it on the box in his sound'hand, and lighted the cigarette,'holding the lighted match in his steel hand: A. second man, using his artificial hand, grasped the hand of Sir Henry Norman and shook it warmly. The third, whoso arm was amputated abovo the elbow, picked up a needle from the table with a small pair of dissecting forceps. Afterwards the man gave an exhibition of _ turning and filing metal and wood-drilling with a sensitive hit. The motions of these wonderful artificial limbs aro controlled, through straps and cords, hy movements of tlio muscles of the chest and back. ' '