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Prosthetic legs wearing a pair of trainers. Watercolour by Julia Midgley, 2012.
Midgley, Julia.Date: [2012]Reference: 2497885i- Books
Spare parts : from peg legs to gene splices / Wendy B. Murphy.
Murphy, Wendy B.Date: [2001], ©2001- Pictures
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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.
Studio Leonardi (Rome, Italy)Date: 1914Reference: 35966i- Pictures
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The victim of a railway accident approaching the railway board's directors for compensation for his extensive injuries. Watercolour by C.W.D., 1866.
D., C. W., active 1866.Date: 1866Reference: 12109i- Books
Specification of Henry Wilms : artificial limbs.
Wilms, Henry.Date: 1857- Books
Das Schicksal der Beinamputierten des ersten Weltkrieges in Deutschland : Inauguraldissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades der Medizin Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz dem Fachbereich Medizin / vorgelegt von Tanja Wolloscheck.
Wolloscheck, Tanja, 1970-Date: 1999- Pictures
An old sailor with wooden leg relates his adventures to a family as both men smoke and drink. Reproduction of an etching by G. Cruikshank, 1818, after J. Sheringham.
Sheringham, John, Lieutenant.Date: 1818Reference: 24862i- Pictures
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An old sailor with wooden leg and a man with no arms drinking in a tavern; below is a song about their seafaring days. Etching by I. Cruikshank, c. 1791.
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811Date: 25 June 1791Reference: 26889i- Pictures
A soldier with one arm debates with a sailor with a wooden leg the merits of the army and the navy. Reproduction of an etching by I. & G. Cruikshank, 1806.
Date: 1806Reference: 26286i- Videos
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Engineering in medicine.
Date: 1971- Pictures
Colonel Pierre Philippe Denfert-Rochereau kicking a military veteran who has lost both legs. Colour line block by Lefman after A. Gill, 1872.
Gill, André, 1840-1885.Date: 16 Juin 1872Reference: 657721i- Pictures
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An old soldier with a wooden leg telling a family about his experiences. Etching by W. Matthews after S. Jennen.
Jennen, S.Reference: 23091i- Pictures
An episode in Tristram Shandy (?): Uncle Toby (?) and his associates discussing battles in which he had fought. Etching by J. Bretherton, 1782, after H.W. Bunbury after L. Sterne.
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.Date: 1st Jan[uar]y 1782Reference: 651172i- Videos
Bionic body shop.
Date: 2004- Books
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Hints on the use of an artificial limb.
Great Britain. Ministry of Pensions.Date: [1949]- Pictures
A Greenwich Pensioner [?], with an eye-patch and a wooden leg, holding a foaming tankard. Coloured wood engraving.
Reference: 32766i- Pictures
A Greenwich Pensioner, with a wooden leg, hitting a peddlar with his walking stick. Wood engraving.
Reference: 32767i- Pictures
People ruined by the Dutch financial crisis of 1720 enter the city of Vianen. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 812341iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
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Royal Naval Hospital Greenwich, viewed from afar with two men opening a bundle on the riverbank in the foreground. Engraving by H. Adlard after H. Gastineau.
Gastineau, Henry G., 1791-1876.Reference: 27699i- Pictures
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Drunken sailors round a table cheering and throwing their hats in the air as a man with a wooden leg recounts the Battle of the Nile. Reproduction of an etching by C. H., c. 1825, after G. Cruikshank.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 1 July 1825Reference: 26924i- Pictures
John Law, the author of the financial crisis of 1720, rides in a triumphal chariot before the "sentinel of the Mississippi". Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 812311iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
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A Greenwich Pensioner with a wooden leg, standing in a landscape, the domes of Greenwich Hospital behind. Coloured aquatint, 1813.
Date: January 1813Reference: 31463i- Pictures
Tobacco: an Irishman, a Scot and an English sailor smoke, take snuff and chew respectively. Coloured aquatint by Hunt, c. 1833, after W. Summers after C. J. Grant.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852.Date: 1 January 1833Reference: 24988i- Digital Images
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Desoutter Bros. Ltd., Progress
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Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Hall