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

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.

Gentlemen being instructed in dancing and posture. Mezzotint by B. Clowes after J. Collet, ca. 1768.

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 119.5 x 78.2 cm

1 folded sheet (10 unnumbered page) : illustrations ; 23 cm

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

3 pages, 3 folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm

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.

Home management / compiler E.R. Wilshere ; assistant B.H. Rostance ; edited by P.J.R. Nichols, E.E. Rogers and E.R. Wilshere.

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Orthotic Devices

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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.

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.

Home management / compiler E.R. Wilshere ; assistant B.H. Rostance ; edited by P.J.R. Nichols, E.E. Rogers and E.R. Wilshere.

Orthotic Devices

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Images referencing Orthotic Devices

Works from the collections

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.

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.

Home management / compiler E.R. Wilshere ; assistant B.H. Rostance ; edited by P.J.R. Nichols, E.E. Rogers and E.R. Wilshere.

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