Medical device used to modify the structural and functional characteristics of the neuromuscular and skeletal system

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Orthopaedic apparatus for the whole human body: posterior view. Engraving by G. Georgi, 1656.

Three men wearing orthopedic apparatus exercising; another is strapped into leg braces. Aquatint by P. Sandby (?), 1783.

A nurse (?) presenting trusses, corsets and artificial limbs to those who need them. Colour lithograph by Henry Le Monnier, 1924.

Orthopaedic apparatus for the whole human body: anterior view. Engraving by G. Georgi, 1656.

For them- a brighter world / Shriners Hospitals for Crippled Children.

Human figure consisting of rounded lines with a single leg holding a walking stick

Specification of Alexander Melville Clark : orthopedic apparatus.

Rupture and its radical cure : with a full description of the parts involved : also, of falling of the womb, varicocele, enlarged veins of the legs, piles, curved spine, spermatorrhea or nocturnal emissions from self-abuse, and its cure by pressure / by S.N. Marsh.

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A nurse (?) presenting trusses, corsets and artificial limbs to those who need them. Colour lithograph by Henry Le Monnier, 1924.

For them- a brighter world / Shriners Hospitals for Crippled Children.

Human figure consisting of rounded lines with a single leg holding a walking stick

Specification of Alexander Melville Clark : orthopedic apparatus.

Rupture and its radical cure : with a full description of the parts involved : also, of falling of the womb, varicocele, enlarged veins of the legs, piles, curved spine, spermatorrhea or nocturnal emissions from self-abuse, and its cure by pressure / by S.N. Marsh.