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Adapting to life as a thalidomide survivor
Growing up as a thalidomide survivor meant coping with all the usual challenges of childhood and adolescence, while having to fit into a world designed for the able-bodied.
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Sockets and stumps
Historian Emily Mayhew has met soldiers who have survived the seemingly unsurvivable. Here, she explores the part prosthetics play in the process of military rehabilitation.
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The current that kills
In the 19th century, electricity held life in the balance, with the power to execute – or reanimate.
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Surviving a flesh-eating disease
Nearly dying from a skin infection gave Scott Neill a chance to start again after an early life marked by grief and depression.
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Amputation of the lower leg.
Date: 1900-1999- Film
Amputation of the lower leg.
Date: 1903- Videos
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Amputation of the lower leg.
Date: 1903
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Amputation at the knee-joint by disarticulation : with remarks on amputation of the leg by lateral flaps / by Thomas Bryant.
Bryant, Thomas, 1828-1914.Date: 1886
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Case of traumatic spreading gangrene, after severe compound fracture of the leg, for which amputation beneath the trochanter was performed, and the arteries secured by four acupressure needles : the femoral artery, at its giving off the profunda branch, was relieved from pressure at the forty-ninth hour after the operation, with recovery, and remarks / by P.D. Handyside.
Handyside, P. D. (Peter David), 1808-1881.Date: [1860]