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Prostheses and Implants

Artificial device that replaces a missing body part

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76 images from works
  • Appliances from 'Mechanical Substitute for The Arms',
  • Artificial left arm with shoulder straps. Made with leather and aluminium by W. R. Grossmith.
  • Glass knee
  • Artificial left leg with thigh socket for amputation above the knee.
  • Appliances from 'Mechanical Substitute for The Arms',
  • Cells crawling across crystals
  • A selection of glass eyes from an opticians glas eye case. Possibly made by E. Muller of Liverpool.
  • A physician diagnoses war veterans. Wood engraving, c. 1870.
  • A selection of glass eyes from an opticians glas eye case. Possibly made by E. Muller of Liverpool.
  • Artificial limb factory in Rome: six women working at benches, one using a sewing machine and one stitching the back of a full-length leg. Photograph, 1914/1918.

Works

273 works

    • Film

    Worth it every inch of the way.

    | Date: 1974
    • Film

    Lower limb prosthetic manufacture : amputee pilot RAF.

    | Date: 1950
    • Books

    Deformities caused by thalidomide.

    | Date: 1964
    • Books

    The enemy: us / Doug Moench, script ; Rich Buckler [penciller and plot] ; Pablo Marcos [inker].

    Moench, Doug, 1948- | Date: 1974
    • Books

    Augusto Biaggi (1908-1977) / von Antonio Alfredo Lenares.

    Lenares, Antonio Alfredo. | Date: 1997
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