ARTIFICIAL ARMS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 166, 31 July 1937, Page 6

ARTIFICIAL ARMS

-Own Correspondent).

Wonders Shown By German Surgeon MIRACULOUS WORK

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Air Mail-

LONDON, July 7. An armless man fitting on artifieial arms ani hands, dressing, buttoning his trousers and coat with artifieial fingers, while another emptied a box of matches on a table and with a small forceps picked them all up and replaced them neatly in their box — these were some of the wonders shown on the screen at Glasgow University recently by Prot'essor Sauerbach, of Berlin. The German surgeon has done miraculous work, making it possible for his patients to move hands and fingers with the museles of their upper arm. ' Suppose a man has lost his arms above the elbow, Professor Sauerbach maltes a tunnel through the triceps behind and the biceps in front and lines it with skin. When this is kealed he inserts an ivory peg fitted with strings leading to various points in the artifieial limb. The patient is able to learn how to control his museles in such a way as to impart the deaired movements to the artifieial limb in exactly the same way as if he had never lost an arm. This brings us a long way from the fampus "Captain Hook," aud the rnodern armless man car. become so deft that he is able to earn his living as ft telephone operator or at many. jobg requiring accurate and quite delicate "finger" movements. Professor Sauerbach 's artifieial limbs are a good deal more handy than many a gouty . natural hand.