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  • Crutches and orthopaedic boots.
  • Artificial limbs and crutches, 19th century.
  • Pieter Brueghel, A cripple with hand crutches.
  • Woodcut: St. Antony abbot with cripple using crutches.
  • John of Arderne, "use of crutches" 15th C
  • Clappers and crutches used by lepers. 12th Century.
  • An amputee on crutches. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A one-legged beggar with two crutches. Gouache possibly after J. Callot.
  • Disabled children on crutches: preventing polio in Kenya. Colour lithograph, ca. 2000.
  • A lame beggar moving with crutches seen from behind. Etching possibly after J. Callot.
  • An old man on crutches with a wooden leg. Etching by Jean Duplessi-Bertaux.
  • Votive picture: a woman kneeling with crutches, praying to the Virgin and Child. Oil painting.
  • Votive picture: a woman kneeling with crutches, praying to the Virgin and Child. Oil painting.
  • Votive picture: a woman kneeling with crutches, praying to the Virgin and Child. Oil painting.
  • Votive picture: a woman kneeling with crutches, praying to the Virgin and Child. Oil painting.
  • A boy with crutches sitting on a bench in a bucolic environment looking pensively. Wood engraving.
  • St Bartholomew's Hospital, London: the courtyard with three figures, one on crutches. Engraving by J. Hulett.
  • A lame man walking with the aid of crutches. Watercolour by Zhou Pei Qun, ca. 1890.
  • A bearded beggar dressed in rags walking on two crutches. Etching by R. Blake after J. Callot.
  • An old man sitting cross-legged on the ground next to his crutches. Etching by C. Jacque.
  • A lame girl discarding her crutches after being healed at Lourdes. Etching by J.L. Forain, 1912.
  • A bearded beggar with a misshapen left leg standing with two crutches. Etching possibly after J. Callot.
  • St Nicholas' and St Martin's Orthopaedic Hospital, Pyrford, Surrey: a boy using wooden crutches. Photograph, c. 1935.
  • A beggar dressed in ragged clothes walks on crutches begging for scraps. Coloured lithograph by E. Hull, 1825.
  • A beggar, probably with two amputated legs, leans on two wooden crutches. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • An old woman dressed in rags moving with the aid of two crutches. Gouache painting possibly after J. Callot.
  • A boy using crutches is looking at the instruments and dental prostheses of a travelling healer. Coloured photograph, 19--.
  • A bearded lame man walking with the aid of two crutches begging for alms with his hat. Engraving with etching.
  • St Nicholas' and St Martin's Orthopaedic Hospital, Pyrford, Surrey: boy patients in wheelchairs and on crutches, laughing. Photograph, c. 1935.
  • Silhouette of a one-legged figure on crutches: World Diabetes Day in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, 2005.