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  • Historic artificial limbs / by Vittorio Putti.
  • Exhibition "Rehabilitation". Case showing artificial limbs.
  • Artificial limbs and crutches, 19th century.
  • Specification of Henry Wilms : artificial limbs.
  • Artificial limbs and amputation stumps : a practical handbook / by E. Muirhead Little.
  • Artificial limbs and amputation stumps : a practical handbook / by E. Muirhead Little.
  • Artificial limbs and amputation stumps : a practical handbook / by E. Muirhead Little.
  • Artificial limbs and amputation stumps : a practical handbook / by E. Muirhead Little.
  • Artificial limbs and amputation stumps : a practical handbook / by E. Muirhead Little.
  • Manufacture of artificial limbs in Glasgow for Scottish servicemen injured in World War I. Photograph album by Yarrow & Co. Ltd.
  • A nurse (?) presenting trusses, corsets and artificial limbs to those who need them. Colour lithograph by Henry Le Monnier, 1924.
  • Prostheses: two men with artificial limbs demonstrating their comparative agility by climbing gymnasium bars at St. Thomas' Hospital, London: the man on the left wears a new type of prosthesis. Photograph, ca. 1920.
  • Leprosy: constructing artificial limb
  • Artificial left arm, metal, with hand and canvas shoulder strap. Made by the Mckay Artificial Limb Company.
  • Artificial left arm, metal, with hand and canvas shoulder strap. Made by the Mckay Artificial Limb Company.
  • Artificial limb factory in Rome: two women at wooden workbenches, one with a hammer and one with a drill. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Description of an artificial hand / By Sir George Cayley.
  • Les jambes artificielles et la prothèse des membres pelviens : considérations générales historique lacunes principes anatomo-mécaniques types & espèces decriptions conclusions / par F. Lacroix.
  • Description of an artificial hand / By Sir George Cayley.
  • Specification of William Edward Newton : artificial legs.
  • Specification of William Edward Newton : artificial legs.
  • Two old men in conversation: the man on the left holding a basket has a wooden leg, the other one leans with both hands on a stick. Watercolour by S.G. (?).
  • World War I: women manufacturing prosthetic limbs. Charcoal drawing with bodycolour by A. Garratt, 1916.
  • An old man on crutches with a wooden leg. Etching by Jean Duplessi-Bertaux.
  • A man in ragged clothing with a wooden leg and a stick is holding out his hand for alms. Etching by Jean Duplessi-Bertaux.
  • A man in ragged clothing with a wooden leg and a stick is holding out his hand for alms. Etching by Jean Duplessi-Bertaux.
  • A one-legged man is knocked down by a horse-drawn cart that crushes his wooden leg under its wheels. Coloured etching.
  • A man in ragged clothes walking with two crutches and a wooden leg. Etching by Jan Georg van der Vliet, c. 1632.