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Two sailors with amputated legs, an eyepatch and an amputated arm moving with the aid of crutches. Etching by S.B., 1783.
B. S.Date: 20 September 1783Reference: 43959i
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A man with a wooden leg plays the violin while his wife and children accompany him with a song. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 44066i
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Three men help a sailor of their acquaintance who has slipped and broken his wooden leg by calling on a passing carpenter for help. Coloured engraving with etching.
Date: 24 February 1800Reference: 44090i
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A man with a wooden leg sings while he is accompanied by a blind man playing the flute and a dog performing on its hind legs. Pen and ink drawing.
Reference: 44048i
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World War I: a wounded soldier and women celebrating the armistice in London. Photograph by Farringdon Photo Company, 1918.
Date: [1918]Reference: 2043346i
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Normen für die Ablösung grösserer Gliedmassen / [Carl Ferd. v. Graefe].
Graefe, Carl Ferdinand von, 1787-1840.Date: 1812
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A one-legged beggar and former soldier approaches a wealthy clergyman for alms. Etching with engraving by John Collier, 1770.
Bobbin, Tim, 1708-1786.Date: May 1773Reference: 43852i
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A man in ragged clothing with a wooden leg and a stick is holding out his hand for alms. Etching by Jean Duplessi-Bertaux.
Duplessi-Bertaux, Jean, 1750-1818.Date: 1798-1813Reference: 38064i
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A surgeon dressing the stump of a patient's recently amputated leg. Engraving, 1738.
Date: [1738]Reference: 22373i
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A pregnant woman leading a donkey on which a discharged veteran, who has lost both his legs, is sitting carrying one of their children in a bucket. Etching with engraving by J. Caldwell after J. Collet, 1775.
Collet, John, 1725?-1780.Date: 30 May 1775Reference: 43853i
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A legless man sitting on a wooden cart, presumably begging for alms, is surrounded by two dogs. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
Smith, John Thomas, 1766-1833.Date: 4 June 1816Reference: 44035i
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A surgeon amputating a patient's leg with a saw, he is being held in a particular position by two attendants. Engraving, 1738.
Date: [1738]Reference: 22371i
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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.
Reference: 43764i
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A surgeon apologetically takes a breather during an amputation operation: a bottle of champagne waits in a cooler; a doctor and nurse canoodle while the patient screams. Colour process print after J.-A. Faivre, 1902.
Faivre, Abel, 1867-1945.Date: 22 March 1902Reference: 17094i
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A one-legged man in rags moving with the aid of crutches is accompanied by a child with a bandaged arm. Gouache on vellum.
Reference: 43781i
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A one-legged hurdy gurdy player dressed in rags with his companion, an old woman dressed in rags reading from a song sheet. Engraving with etching by J. Matham after Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne.
Venne, Adriaen Pietersz. van de, 1589-1662.Reference: 43832i
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A "theatre" of medicine and surgery. Watercolour by Johann Heinrich Ramberg, ca. 1800.
Ramberg, Johann Heinrich, 1763-1840.Date: [1800?]Reference: 537679i
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Saint Eligius: he reshoes the hoof of a horse by amputating the hock, shoeing the hoof, and reattaching the limb. Line engraving by "il Buono" (Floriano Dal Buono?).
Dal Buono, Floriano, 1599-1647.Date: 1600-1699Reference: 4830i
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A man with his leg amputated, surrounded by medical staff in a hospital ward. Colour photograph, 191-.
Date: [between 1914 and 1918?]Reference: 2248826i
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A surgeon performing an amputation of the leg in the seventeenth century. Oil painting, 18-- (?).
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 35179i
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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.
Morin, Edmond, 1824-1882.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 22688i
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Royal Hospital Haslar: a soldier on crutches with an amputated leg, wounded after the Battle of the Alma. Wood engraving, 1855.
Date: [3 February 1855]Reference: 23113i
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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.
Farrier, Robert, 1796-1879.Reference: 44072i
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A description of the diseased conditions of the knee-joint which require amputation of the limb, and those conditions which are favourable to excision of the joint : with an explanation of the relative advantages of both operations as far as can be ascertained by cases properly authenticated. / by Peter Charle Price, ... Edited by Henry Smith.
Price, P. C. (Peter Charles), 1832-1864.Date: MDCCCLXV [1865]
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A surgeon amputating a patient's leg with a saw while he is seated and conscious, blood flows to the floor. Woodcut, 1531.
Date: [1531]Reference: 22328i