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Images about Leg - Amputation

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  • A queen or empress administering a healing balm to a person with leprosy (?). Photograph of a wallpainting in the chapel in Eton College.
  • A man with a wooden leg collecting brushwood in a wicker basket slung over his shoulder. Pen and wash drawing.
  • Ambroise Paré, on the battlefield using a ligature for the artery of an amputated leg of a soldier. Wood engraving by Charles Maurand after E. Morin.
  • A one-legged beggar and former soldier approaches a wealthy clergyman for alms. Etching with engraving by John Collier, 1770.
  • A surgeon amputating a patient's leg who is being held in a particular position by two attendants. Engraving, 1738.
  • 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. (?).
  • An old man with a wooden leg, probably a former soldier, marches with a shouldered broomstick to the drum beaten by a child behind him. Lithograph by T. Farlow after R. Farrier.
  • A surgeon amputating a patient's leg who is being held in a particular position by two attendants. Engraving, 1738.
  • Two sailors with amputated legs, an eyepatch and an amputated arm moving with the aid of crutches. Etching by S.B., 1783.
  • Ambroise Paré, on the battlefield using a ligature for the artery of an amputated leg of a soldier. Wood engraving by Charles Maurand after E. Morin.
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Residual limbs
Surgeons
Surgery, Operative
Artificial legs
Crutches
Bone saws (Surgery)
Patients
Surgical Instruments
Apprentices
Beggars