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  • Prosthesis, 16th century; A. Pare
  • Leprosy: prosthesis
  • Tools used in dental prosthesis,
  • Dental prosthesis, 19th century
  • Dental tools used in dental prosthesis, P. Fauchard, 1728.
  • A man with a wooden leg prosthesis. Photograph, ca. 1915.
  • Sir Harry Lauder, the Scottish entertainer, at a prosthesis stand at a Daily Mail exhibition, Olympia, 1921: one man with an arm prosthesis lights his pipe, a second demonstrates the equipment. Photograph, 1921.
  • A man wearing a leg prosthesis aided by a nurse who kneels to adjust the straps. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • A metal leg covering or prosthesis: decorative with spokes at the knee, housed at the German National Museum, Nürnberg. Photograph by Christof Müller, 1910/1930 (?).
  • 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.
  • Silver plated artificial nose.
  • Artficial leg, iron with knee extention, 17th century.
  • Roman artificial leg of bronze.
  • A man sells a woman an artificial leg at national health service prices. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
  • A nurse (?) presenting trusses, corsets and artificial limbs to those who need them. Colour lithograph by Henry Le Monnier, 1924.
  • 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: two women at wooden workbenches, one with a hammer and one with a drill. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • World War I: women manufacturing prosthetic limbs. Charcoal drawing with bodycolour by A. Garratt, 1916.
  • A couple assemble their false body parts: false teeth, a glass eye and wigs. Coloured lithograph by L. Boilly, 1825.
  • A man with an artificial nose. Drawing, c. 1791.
  • A couple assemble their false body parts: false teeth, a glass eye and wigs. Coloured lithograph by L. Boilly, 1825.
  • 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.
  • A sixteenth-century iron arm: two figures, including a cross-section. Line engraving by J. Skelton after S.R. Meyrick.
  • A lady retiring to bed, and ordering her maid to look after her artificial aids to beauty (wig, teeth, glass eye etc.). Coloured etching by P. Roberts after G.M Woodward.
  • Alles in einer hand.
  • Leprosy: constructing artificial limb
  • Artificial teeth with.springs. P. Fauchard, 1728.
  • A physician diagnoses war veterans. Wood engraving, c. 1870.
  • King Louis XIV in bed, having been told that the rumour of King William III's death was untrue, is treated by physicians and surgeons representing different nations. Etching by P. Bouttats., c. 1690.
  • King Louis XIV in bed, having been told that the rumour of King William III's death was untrue, is treated by physicians and surgeons representing different nations. Etching by P. Bouttats., c. 1690.