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 / B. Frank Palmer.

  • Palmer, B. Frank (Benjamin Franklin)
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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 / B. Frank Palmer. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Philadelphia [Pa.] : [American Art. Limb Company?], [1865]

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48 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contains mostly testimonials from physicians and wearers of the limbs. Includes a list of soldiers on p. 32-33
"Amputations": p.44-48
NLM copy, accompanied by a printed letter from B. Frank Palmer, dated May 1st, 1865, in which he refers to the pamphlet as "just issued by the American Artificial Limb Company."

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