Irvine' (Kennedy) arm for a left above elbow amputee

Made:
1967
SMG00293317 'Irvine' (Kennedy) arm for a left above elbow amputee

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'Irvine' (Kennedy) arm for a left above elbow amputee
Science Museum Group
The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

'Irvine' (Kennedy) arm for a left above elbow amputee. Plastic socket with a fully-automatic 'Hosmer' (U.S.A.) mechanical elbow unit. This permits full internal and external rotation of the flexed forearm combined with elbow flexion having eight locking positions. (Hand missing.) Dated 24 August 1967.

Details

Category:
Orthopaedics
Object Number:
1999-566
type:
prosthetic arm
credit:
Richmond Twickenham and Roehampton Healthcare NHS Trust