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M. Masters & Sons Ltd., established 1849 : manufacturers of artificial legs, arms & eyes, surgical boots, abdominal belts, trusses and every kind of orthopædic appliance sole manufacturers in the British Empire of the Bristol trepanning dissector.
M. Masters & Sons Ltd.Date: [1930]
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Manual of artificial limbs : artificial toes, feet, legs, fingers, hands, arms, for amputations and deformities, appliances for excisions, fractures, and other disabilities of lower and upper extremities, suggestions on amputations, treatment of stumps, history, ... an exhaustive exposition of prothesis.
Marks, George E. (George Edwin), 1853-1932Date: 1910
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Specification of Alexander Horace Brandon : artificial leg.
Brandon, Alexander Horace.Date: 1868
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Reporter of the new patent artificial leg, published by D. DeForrest Douglass, inventor and manufacturer, Springfield, Mass.
Douglass, D. DeForrest (Darwin DeForrest)Date: 1863
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Description of a new artificial leg invented by Dr. Bly, of America : addressed to the medical profession / by H. Heather Bigg.
Bigg, Henry Heather, 1826-1881.Date: 1864
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Socket leg and artificial leg below the knee
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A boy affected by side-effects of thalidomide, with prosthetic legs, standing on a raised board. Photograph by L. McCombe, 1968.
Leonard McCombeDate: [1968]Reference: 2000582i
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M0012307: Cast of a bronze artificial leg, front and side view
Date: February 1952Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/109/95
Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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Artificial lower leg
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Artificial lower leg
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Artificial lower leg
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Artificial lower leg
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A satyr with a wooden leg. Gouache attributed to S.W. Kelly.
Date: 1930-1939Reference: 567156i
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A cat with a wooden front leg. Photograph, ca. 1920 (?).
Date: 1920Reference: 578146i
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The Douglass patent artificial limbs / D. DeForrest Douglass.
Douglass, D. DeForrest (Darwin DeForrest)Date: 1865
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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.
Date: 1920Reference: 578100i
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M0015857: John Sewers: artificial-leg maker's trade-card
Date: 1957Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/142/5
Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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Specification of Thomas Mann : artificial leg.
Mann, Thomas (Printer)Date: 1856
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J. Luce de Lancival, a professor and poet, with an artificial leg walking with a group of men. Etching.
Reference: 23103i
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A poor mother and four children leave a temple in an ancient city; a cloaked man with a stick walks behind them; a boy follows using an artificial leg and crutches. Etching by Michel Corneille, ca. 1666, after Annibale or Lodovico Carracci.
Annibale CarracciDate: [1754]Reference: 589687i
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An improved artificial leg or crutch / [Hermann Heinecke].
Heinecke, Hermann.Date: 1896
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A limbless Greenwich Pensioner, smoking a pipe, someone else fitting an artificial leg for him. Wood engraving.
Reference: 32772i
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A man with a wooden leg carrying arms and legs in a basket; representing the relation between the whole and its parts in Aristotelian logic. Engraving by L. Gaultier, ca. 1613.
Léonard GaultierDate: [1610?]Reference: 571261i
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Specification of James Potts : artificial arm and leg.
Potts, JamesDate: 1856
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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. (?).
Reference: 43961i