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Surgical Apprentice Hand

Not sure but surgical apprentices were probably involved in making surgical appliances. Back then artificaial limbs, calipers (don't see those today) etc would have been hand made.
 

pjmburns said:
Not sure but surgical apprentices were probably involved in making surgical appliances. Back then artificaial limbs, calipers (don't see those today) etc would have been hand made.
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I thought perhaps it was something like that. He did live near what is now Heartlands Hospital (though probably appliances wouldn't have been made there).
 
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