Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1916 — MEN ARE REMADE FOR WAR [ARTICLE]

MEN ARE REMADE FOR WAR

Two Instances of Remarkable Mechanical Surgery Are Told —Improved Artificial Limbs. London. —One of the results of the war has been the enormously improved method in the manufacture of mechanical limbs both here and in France and Germany. —~ According to Surgeon-Major Gamper of the Swiss army it is a fact that the Germans have devised remarkably ingenious arrangements for patching up disabled and crippled men. Lecturing at Bulach on cases that had actually come under his personal notice in Germany, Surgeon-Major Gamper declares that he saw such wonderful artificial legs of German invention that soldiers fitted with them were able to rejoin the cavalry for active service. They sat on their horses as well and as easily as if they still possessed a sound" pair of legs and could do as quickly, smartly and thoroughly any feat required of a perfectly able-bodied man. A well-known case in England i» that of Lord Lucas, who was wounded early in the war in Flanders, with ths result that he lost a leg. An artificial limb was fitted so successfully that Lord Lucas was able to transfer hit services to the Royal Flying corps and Is now serving with that branch of the Service as a. fully qualified pilot somewhere in Egypt