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Picking up a rose, Susanna Hartel shows what she can do with the plastic battery-powered hands she was fitted with six months ago by the Workmen's Com(...)
Picking up a rose, Susanna Hartel shows what she can do with the plastic battery-powered hands she was fitted with six months ago by the Workmen's Com(...)

Picking up a rose, Susanna Hartel shows what she can do with the plastic battery-powered hands she was fitted with six months ago by the Workmen's Com(...)

Date3/23/1977
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  • Picking up a rose, Susanna Hartel shows what she can do with the plastic battery-powered hands she was fitted with six months ago by the Workmen's Com(...)
  • Picking up a rose; Susanna Hartel shows what she can do with the plastic battery-powered hands she was fitted with six months ago by the Workmen's Compensation Board. The 46-year-old mother of two had her hands served by a punch press five years ago and for three years used hooks. Her $4;200 myo-electirc hands respond to commands from her brain and enable her to write.
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Original Toronto Star caption: Picking up a rose; Susanna Hartel shows what she can do with the plastic battery-powered hands she was fitted with six months ago by the Workmen's Compensation Board. The 46-year-old mother of two had her hands served by a punch press five years ago and for three years used hooks. Her $4;200 myo-electirc hands respond to commands from her brain and enable her to write.
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