1. The Palmer arm and leg: adopted for the U.S. Army and Navy by the Surgeon-General, U.S.A., and by the Chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery : manufactured only under the direction of the inventor and patentee Author(s): Palmer, B. Frank (Benjamin Franklin), author Publication: Philadelphia [Pa. : American Art. Limb Company?, 1865] Subject(s): Artificial LimbsAmerican Civil WarMilitary PersonnelUnited States. Army.