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 Under contract with the patentee we have the exclusive right to manufacture this foot in the United States and Canada. We have made a good many of them, and have yet to hear the first complaint from any of the wearers. Wood or leather lacing sockets may be used with this foot. Price of leg with the Haberl foot, for any amputation above the ankle, $75, with five-year warranty.

—This foot is patented in the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Germany, France and Spain.

Attachment for use in place of Thigh Lacer and Knee-joint

In most cases of amputation below the knee, if stump is sound and of good length, it is possible to comfortably use a leg without the steel knee-joint and thigh support. Many express a desire to try a leg of this description, but hesitate to have a leg so constructed, fearing the result of continually taking the entire weight or bearing on the stump, with no provision for relieving it. For such as would like to try, at their convenience and pleasure, a leg without the thigh support, we make attachment No. 211. The thigh lacer and upper joints can be removed by taking the knee-joint bolts out and this attachment substituted. At such times and in such work, when the thigh support would be more desirable, it can be readily replaced. This attachment is included with the $100 leg without extra charge; with any other style of leg, price $5.

This is a leather socket moulded over a cast of the stump, and suspended to the inner side of a wooden socket or shell with adjustable rubber webbing in such a manner as to avoid all friction or chafing of the stump and to give a comfortable, helpful spring at each step of the wearer, the sensation being much the same as though the weight