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  • Exhibition "Rehabilitation". Case showing artificial limbs.
  • Veterans watching and participating in a game of bowls. Lithograph by A. Collette, 1853, after E. de Frenne.
  • Two army veterinarians, one up a ladder examining one of four camels which has artificial front legs. Wood engraving by E.T. Reed, 1906.
  • Leprosy: prosthesis
  • 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.