CHAP. XII. By what means Arms, Legs, and Hands may bee made by art, and placed in stead of the natural Arms, Legs, or Hands that are cut off and lost.
NEcessitie oftentimes constrain's us to finde out the means whereby wee may help and imitate nature, and supplie the defect of members that are perished and lost. And hereof it cometh that wee may perform the functions of go∣ing, standing and handling with arms and hands made by art, and undergo our necessarie flexions and extensions with both of them. I have gotten the forms of all those members made so by art, and the proper names of all the Engines and Instuments whereby those artificially made are called, to my great cost and charges, of a most ingenuous and excellent Smith dwelling at Paris, who is called of those that know him, and also of strangers, by no other name than the little Lorain; and here I have ca••ssed them to be portraied, or set down, that those that stand in need of such things, after the example of them, may caus som Smith, or such like work-man to serv them in the like case. They are not onely profitable for the necessitie of the bodie, but also for the de∣cencie and comliness thereof▪ And here followeth their forms.