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N.Y.) George R. Fuller Co. (Rochester
An early 20th-century Rochester company best remembered for a practical guide to artificial limbs, this firm wrote with a clear, helpful aim: showing readers how prosthetic devices could restore movement and confidence.
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The Making of a Man: Being a Description of Artificial Limbs and How They May Be Adopted by Those Who Have Suffered Loss of Their Natural Limbs
by N.Y.) George R. Fuller Co. (Rochester
About the author
George R. Fuller Co. was not an individual author but a Rochester, New York, company associated with the prosthetics trade. It is credited with The Making of a Man (published in 1902), a concise illustrated work about artificial limbs and how people who had lost natural limbs might adapt to using them.
The book reads less like literary nonfiction and more like an informative company publication: practical, direct, and focused on everyday use. Its subject and tone suggest a business that wanted to explain prosthetic technology in humane, accessible terms for readers facing major physical change.
Because the available records found here are brief, not much more about the company itself could be confirmed with confidence. What does stand out is the period piece it left behind—a window into how prosthetic makers in the early 1900s presented mobility, rehabilitation, and self-reliance to the public.