Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1878 — A Nice Piece of Mechanism. [ARTICLE]

A Nice Piece of Mechanism.

A very nice piece of mechanism has just been perfected by Mr. A. W. Hoyt, of Fond du Lac, Wis. About two years ago Mr. Tucker, a toll-keeper, fell from a load of logs, striking his elbow on the frozen ground, injuring it so seriously that a surgioal operation was necessary, which left the arm without any elbow-joint, and four inches shorter than the other, but with all the muscles and ligaments uninjured, for all practical purposes. The arm was perfectly useless until Mr. Hoyt manufactured a joint, by which Mr. Tucker was enabled to use his arm in any direction, which he proceeded to do the day after the joint was fitted, by mowing, sowing, hoeing, etc. Mr. Hoyt is particularly to be congratulated upon his success, as several surgeons had said it was impossible to make one that could be utilized. —Chicago Tribune.