Operating Room Scene of the Krukenberg Method

Title: Operating Room Scene of the Krukenberg Method
Caption: The Krukenberg method when hand amputated, of fashioning 2 forearm bones & then attached to muscles into 2 moveable bones which could hold & use chopsticks. Very useful in a country not yet able to make functioning prothetics.
Identifier: JOW_12
Description: Scene in an operating room with several doctors and/or nurses performing an operation on a patient's arm. The patient's head is not visible.
Physical Dimensions: 5.9 h x 5.8 w cm
Original Format: black and white photographic print
Source: Judith Outerbridge Walker
Provenance: Ralph and Margaret Outerbridge Family Archives
Access Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publisher: SIUE
Record Date: 2024-08-19
Contributor: Derek Burns, Nicholas Fowler, Cory Willmott
Subject: medical missionaries, operations