Subjects: Artificial Limbs / Copyright: Public domain / Dates by Range: 1850-1899 - Digital Collections - National Library of Medicine Search Results

1. Argument in behalf of the extension of the patent of B. Frank Palmer for an improvement in artificial legs, dated November 4th. 1846 before the Hon. Philip F. Thomas, Commissioner of Patents: hearing, 22d October, 1860

Author(s):: Stansbury, Charles F. (Charles Frederick), -1882
Publication:: Baltimore : Murphy & Co., Publishers, Booksellers, Printers and Stationers, [1860?]
Subject(s):: Artificial Limbs
Leg
Palmer, B. Frank (Benjamin Franklin)

2. Argument on behalf of the applicant: in the matter of the application of B. Frank Palmer, for the extension of letters patent, granted to him 4th November, 1846, for improvement in artificial legs

Author(s):: Stansbury, Charles F. (Charles Frederick), -1882
Publication:: [Washington? : s.n., 1860]
Subject(s):: Artificial Limbs
Patents as Topic -- legislation & jurisprudence
Palmer, B. Frank (Benjamin Franklin)

3. [Artificial leg and boot]

Publication:: [Washington, D.C. : Surgeon General's Office, Army Medical Museum, 1864?]
Subject(s):: Artificial Limbs
Leg
American Civil War

4. [Artificial leg]

Publication:: [Washington, D.C. : Surgeon General's Office, Army Medical Museum, 1864?]
Subject(s):: Artificial Limbs
Leg
American Civil War

5. Artificial legs, arms, and apparatus for disabilities and deformities

Author(s):: Kolbé, D. W., author
Publication:: Philadelphia : Collins, printer, 1870
Subject(s):: Artificial Limbs

6. Artificial limbs for the United States Army and Navy: per commission of Surgeon-General, U.S.A

Author(s):: Hudson, E. Darwin (Erasmus Darwin), 1843-1887
Publication:: [United States : s.n., 1865?]
Subject(s):: Amputation
Artificial Limbs
Military Personnel
United States

7. Artificial limbs furnished to soldiers: letter from the Secretary of War in answer to a resolution of the House of April 10, relative to artificial limbs furnished to soldiers at the expense of government

Author(s):: United States. Surgeon-General's Office.
Publication:: [Washington : s.n., 1866]
Subject(s):: Artificial Limbs
Military Personnel
Financing, Government
United States

8. A brief description of James A. Foster's patent union artificial limbs: manufactured at Philadelphia, Pa., Cincinnati, Ohio, Detroit, Michigan, and Rochester, N.Y

Publication:: [Philadelphia? : s.n., 1864-68]
Subject(s):: Artificial Limbs

9. Can physicians honorably accept commissions from orthopedic instrument makers?

Author(s):: Wilson, H. Augustus (Harry Augustus), 1853-1919, author
Publication:: Philadelphia : [publisher not identified], [1894?]
Subject(s):: Ethics, Medical
Interprofessional Relations -- ethics
Orthotic Devices
Artificial Limbs

10. Can physicians honorably accept commissions from orthopedic instrument makers?: Commissions to physicians upon the sale of orthopedic apparatus from the manufacturer's standpoint

Author(s):: Wilson, H. Augustus (Harry Augustus), 1853-1919, author
Publication:: [Philadelphia?] : [publisher not identified], [1895?]
Subject(s):: Ethics, Medical
Interprofessional Relations -- ethics
Orthotic Devices
Artificial Limbs

11. Chicago Orthopedic Institute, for the surgical and mechanical treatment of the deformities and deficiencies of the human body

Author(s):: Chicago Orthopedic Institute.
Publication:: [Chicago : s.n., 1874?]
Subject(s):: Artificial Limbs
Orthotic Devices

12. The Clement patent improved artificial leg: adopted for the U.S. Army and Navy by the Surgeon-Gen'l U.S.A

Author(s):: Clement, Richard, active 1869, author
Publication:: Philadelphia : William S. Souder, printer, 1869
Subject(s):: Artificial Limbs
Leg

13. The Clement patent improved artificial leg: adopted for the U.S. Army and Navy by the Surgeon-Gen'l, U.S.A

Author(s):: Clement, Richard, active 1869, author
Publication:: Philadelphia : Samuel Loag, printer, 1868
Subject(s):: Artificial Limbs
Leg

14. A description of a new, curious, and important invention

Author(s):: Bly, Douglas, -1876
Publication:: Rochester : Rochester Evening Express, [1859?]
Subject(s):: Artificial Limbs
Leg

15. Description of the orthopaedic apparatus employed in the treatment of deformities and deficiencies of the human body: with directions for taking measurements for their application

Author(s):: Kolbé, D. W.
Publication:: Philadelphia : Collins, printer, 1876
Subject(s):: Orthotic Devices
Artificial Limbs

16. The Douglass patent artificial limbs

Author(s):: Douglass, D. DeForrest (Darwin DeForrest)
Publication:: Springfield, Mass. : Bowles, printers, 1872
Subject(s):: Artificial Limbs
Leg

17. The Douglass patent artificial limbs

Author(s):: Douglass, D. DeForrest (Darwin DeForrest)
Publication:: Springfield [Mass.] : Bowles & Co., printer, 1865
Subject(s):: Artificial Limbs
Leg

18. Drake's patent artificial legs, hands, arms, &c

Author(s):: Drake, John S.
Publication:: Boston : J. Drake, [1859?]
Subject(s):: Artificial Limbs

19. The human wheel, its spokes and felloes

Author(s):: Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894
Publication:: Philadelphia : Palmer, c1863
Subject(s):: Artificial Limbs
Leg

20. Illustrations and a brief description of James A. Foster's patent union artificial limbs: with testimonials of surgeons, the press, and those wearing them after having tested most all other kinds

Author(s):: Foster, James A., 1829-, author
Publication:: Philadelphia : James A. Foster, 1870
Subject(s):: Artificial Limbs

21. Lincoln's patent artificial arm

Author(s):: Lincoln, Marvin, author
Publication:: [Boston?] : [publisher not identified], February, 1866
Subject(s):: Artificial Limbs
Arm

22. Marks' patent artificial limbs, with India rubber hands and feet

Author(s):: Marks, A. A. (Amasa Abraham)
Publication:: New York City, USA : [s.n. 1886]
Subject(s):: Artificial Limbs

23. Marks' patent artificial limbs, with India rubber hands and feet

Author(s):: Marks, A. A. (Amasa Abraham)
Publication:: New York : N.F. Turner, Steam Book and Job Printer ..., 1876
Subject(s):: Artificial Limbs

24. Marks' patent artificial limbs, with India rubber hands and feet

Author(s):: Marks, A. A. (Amasa Abraham)
Publication:: New York : William B. Smyth, Job and Card Printer, 1867
Subject(s):: Artificial Limbs

25. Marks' patent artificial limbs, with India rubber hands and feet

Author(s):: Marks, A. A. (Amasa Abraham)
Publication:: New York : N.F. Turner, Steam Book and Job Printer ..., 1876 [i.e. 1878]
Subject(s):: Artificial Limbs

26. Marks' patent artificial limbs, with India rubber hands and feet

Author(s):: Marks, A. A. (Amasa Abraham)
Publication:: New York : William B. Smyth, Job and Card Printer, 1865
Subject(s):: Artificial Limbs

27. Marks' patent artificial limbs, with India rubber hands and feet, office and manufactory, no. 575 Broadway, New York City, directory opposite the Metropolitan Hotel

Author(s):: Marks, A. A. (Amasa Abraham), author
Publication:: New York : William B. Smyth, job and card printer, 1869
Subject(s):: Artificial Limbs
Rubber

28. Mechanical surgery

Author(s):: Hudson, Erasmus Darwin, 1806-1880
Publication:: New York : E.D. Hudson, 1871
Subject(s):: Artificial Limbs
Amputation

29. Mechanical surgery: artificial limbs, apparatus for resections, apparatus for ununited fractures, feet for limbs shortened by hip disease, arms and hands : by Soldiers US Provided Commission of the Surgeon-General U.S.A

Author(s):: Hudson, Erasmus Darwin, 1806-1880
Publication:: New York : Baker & Godwin, printers, [1867?]
Subject(s):: Artificial Limbs
Amputation

30. Monroe & Gardiner's imperishable raw hide artificial limbs: patented March 15 and October 11, 1864, and July 25, 1865 : the lightest, strongest, and most durable of anything of the kind ever invented, the body of the leg, the joints and tendons, in fact the whole structure is something entirely new and simple

Author(s):: Monroe & Gardiner (Firm)
Publication:: New York : MacDonald & Stone, printers, 1866
Subject(s):: Artificial Limbs

31. The national benefaction--$500,000!: seven thousand patent limbs given to the United States troops : brief history of the great work

Author(s):: Palmer, B. Frank (Benjamin Franklin), author
Publication:: [Philadelphia] : [Sherman & Co.], [1868]
Subject(s):: Artificial Limbs
Military Personnel
Financing, Government
Expert Testimony
United States
Palmer, B. Frank (Benjamin Franklin)

32. A new and important invention

Author(s):: Bly, Douglas, -1876
Publication:: Rochester [N.Y.] : Curtis, Butts, 1862
Subject(s):: Artificial Limbs
Leg

33. On the treatment of ununited fracture by means of artificial limbs, which combine the principle of pressure and motion at the seat of fracture, and lead to the formation of an ensheathing callus, illustrated by the history of four cases of false joint in the femur, eight in the leg, and two in the humerus

Author(s):: Smith, Henry H. (Henry Hollingsworth), 1815-1890
Publication:: Philadelphia : T.K. and P.G. Collins, Printers, 1855
Subject(s):: Fractures, Malunited -- surgery
Friction
Artificial Limbs

34. The Palmer arm & leg: correspondence with the Surgeon-General U.S.A. and the Chief of Bureau of Medicine & Surgery U.S.N. with letters from eminent surgeons, and a communication from B. Frank. Palmer to the Board of Surgeons convened to decide on the best patent artificial limbs to be adopted for use by the Army and Navy of the U.S

Publication:: Philadelphia : C. Sherman & Son, printers, 1862
Subject(s):: Artificial Limbs
Military Personnel
United States

35. 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 Limbs
American Civil War
Military Personnel
United States. Army.

36. The patent "Palmer" arm, for the Army and Navy: correspondence

Author(s):: Palmer, B. Frank (Benjamin Franklin)
Publication:: [Philadelphia? : s.n., 1864?]
Subject(s):: Artificial Limbs
Arm
Military Personnel

37. Remarkable inventions: an anatomical leg, with lateral or side motion at the ankle, like the natural one, arms with new shoulder motion

Author(s):: Bly, Douglas, -1876
Publication:: Rochester, N.Y. : Evening Express Printing House, [1870?]
Subject(s):: Artificial Limbs
Leg

38. Reporter of the new patent artificial leg, published by D. DeForrest Douglass, inventor and manufacturer, Springfield, Mass

Author(s):: Douglass, D. DeForrest (Darwin DeForrest)
Publication:: Springfield, Mass. : J.F. Tannatt & Co., 1863
Subject(s):: Artificial Limbs
Leg

39. The Salem leg: circular number ten : new testimonials, reduction of price

Author(s):: Salem Leg Company, author.
Publication:: [Salem, Massachusetts?] : Essex Institute Press, [1870?]
Subject(s):: Artificial Limbs
Leg

40. The Salem leg: under the patronage of the United States Government

Author(s):: Salem Leg Company, author.
Publication:: Salem, Mass. : Office of the Salem Leg Company, 1865
Subject(s):: Artificial Limbs
Leg
Amputation
Prosthesis Design -- instrumentation
Massachusetts

41. The Salem leg: under the patronage of the United States Government

Author(s):: Salem Leg Company, author.
Publication:: Salem, Mass. : Office of the Salem Leg Company, 1866
Subject(s):: Artificial Limbs
Leg
Amputation
Prosthesis Design -- instrumentation
Massachusetts

42. The Société de chirurgie of Paris, on artificial limbs and amputations: results of twelve years' investigation : published by the Society in the Bulletin Général Médicale et Chirurgicale, Paris ; translation published by B. Frank Palmer

Publication:: Philadelphia : B. Frank Palmer, [186-?]
Subject(s):: Artificial Limbs

43. Specification of Palmer's patent leg

Author(s):: Palmer & Co. (New York, N.Y.), author.
Publication:: [New York] : [publisher not identified], [1856]
Subject(s):: Leg
Artificial Limbs
Prosthesis Design -- instrumentation

44. Steps

Author(s):: Palmer, B. Frank (Benjamin Franklin)
Publication:: [Philadelphia? : s.n., 1874?]
Subject(s):: Artificial Limbs
Amputation Stumps

45. Surgical appliances of every description for resections of the shoulder, arm, elbow joint, and fore-arm: also for ununited fractures, arms, hands, and feet

Author(s):: Jewett's Patent Artificial Leg Company.
Publication:: Washington, D.C. : McGill & Witherow, 1865
Subject(s):: Artificial Limbs
Washington (D.C.)

46. Testimony in the matter of the application of B. Frank. Palmer for the extension of his patent for an artificial leg: read before the Hon. Commissioner of Patents, October 22, 1860 : extension granted Nov. 3, 1860

Author(s):: Stansbury, Charles F. (Charles Frederick), -1882
Publication:: Philadelphia : C. Sherman & son, printers, 1862
Subject(s):: Artificial Limbs
Patents as Topic
United States

47. A treatise on Marks' patent artificial limbs with rubber hands and feet

Author(s):: Marks, George E. (George Edwin), 1853-1932
Publication:: New York City, U.S.A. : A.A. Marks, c1889
Subject(s):: Artificial Limbs

48. 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

Author(s):: Marks, George E. (George Edwin), 1853-1932
Publication:: New York City, U.S.A. : A.A. Marks, c1896
Subject(s):: Artificial Limbs

49. United States Orthopedic Institute: for the application of improved anatomical machinery to the treatment of every variety of deformity

Author(s):: United States Orthopedic Institute.
Publication:: Philadelphia : George W. Yerger & John F. Ord, Proprietors, [1851?]
Subject(s):: Artificial Limbs
Braces