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Artificial Limbs

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  • Images from the collections
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Images from the collections

Images about Artificial Limbs

50 images from works
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 2.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 2.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 2.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 2.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 2.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 2.
  • Artificial limbs and amputation stumps : a practical handbook / by E. Muirhead Little.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 2.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 2.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 2.
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Works from the collections

167 works

    • Archives and manuscripts

    M0001971: Close-up photograph of the reverse-side of the iron hand of Clephane, also known as the Hand of Carslogie, a 16th century iron prosthetic hand formerly in the posession of the family Clephane of Carslogie

    | Date: June 1931 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/18/48
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Videos

    Thalidomide plus 25.

    | Date: 198?
    • Books
    • Online

    A catalogue of surgical instruments and appliances : also of aseptic hospital furniture including a large number of original designs manufactured and sold by Down Bros., Ltd.

    Down Bros. (Firm) | Date: 1906
    • Videos

    Broken promises.

    | Date: 1989
    • Videos

    Only the beginning.

    | Date: 1969
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Related topics

Prostheses and Implants
Rehabilitation
Thalidomide
Occupational Therapy
Children with Disabilities
Limb Deformities, Congenital
Amputation, Surgical
Leg
United Kingdom
Queen Mary's Hospital (Roehampton, London, England)

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