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Excerpt from Marks' Patent Artificial Limbs, With India Rubber Hands and Feet
Twenty-three years of arduous, perplexing, anxious, thoughtful and almost incessant labor brings me to this pe riod in a calling, of its importance, dignity and benefits to mutilated humanity, of which others can better speak than myself. It has brought me in contact with all the grades 01 human life and made me a listener to a thousand tales of suffering and distress, sometimes of such a painful nature that my anxiety was only for the end of the story. The old man of seventy years has told me how he lost his leg by his horses taking fright from a stone rolling down the bank, and running away, tearing the carriage to pieces, wounding him in several places, and breaking his leg all to pieces, as he bluntly describes it. The result was amputation above the knee.
Others in middle life, too numerous to particularize here, tell the varied histories of their loss; some, yes many, in Battle, and many by the most tri?ing accidents; but those touching my sympathies most tenderly are the children's stories; one in particular comes up in my mind at the present moment it was a little, rather frail boy of less than ten years his father was a farmer, and was drawing logs the boy was following behind the oxen when they were drawing only the loose log chain, with its long hook dangling at the end; by some means it caught the boy's ankle, and after dragging him for a short distance by the leg, the chain ran through between two stumps, very close together, the result was it took the little fellow' s foot completely off at the ankle.
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