FALSE ARM WONDER

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 281, 16 August 1918, Page 7

FALSE ARM WONDER

ll'EN' EQUIPPED FOK ALL TRADES. A new artificial arm is being supplied to mSi'ued soldiers at Koehampton Hospital which will enable them to work at their trades with little short of the case ami skill of men in possession of their natural limbs. It is the invention of Mr. A. .0. Adams, tho hospital artificial limb expert; who is minus an arm himself. Made of aluminium and steel, it weighs only i!lb. 30/„, kit is so strong that a man can dig, use a sledgehammer, and life weights as heavy as with his sound arm. "1 was present at a demonstration," writes a medical correspondent of the "Daily Mail," "and in comparison with what*l saw there two years afro, the advance is marvellous. The. forearm can be attached or dctached, and any tool or implement can bo fixed to the ivrist in'ail instant by pressing a spring. 'J'he hand supplied can be turned to one side or the other. "I saw men digging, raking, using a plane, hammer, and other tools, chopping wood with an axe, playing billiards, golf, and cricket, and steering a bicycle with the artificial arm alone, and all done without effort. Tho arm is so jointed that when tho man walks it swings naturally, and is scarcely distinguishable from a sound limb. "The new arm will be a boon. 'I was wouuded too soon,' said an overseas soldier who brought an arm of older typo to bo repaired. 'I must wear this out before getting what would make a useful worker of me.'"