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  • Artificial limb factory in Rome: six women working at benches, one using a sewing machine and one stitching the back of a full-length leg. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • Roman artificial leg of bronze.
  • Silver plated artificial nose.
  • A nurse (?) presenting trusses, corsets and artificial limbs to those who need them. Colour lithograph by Henry Le Monnier, 1924.
  • Artificial limb factory in Rome: two women at wooden workbenches, one with a hammer and one with a drill. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • King Louis XIV in bed, having been told that the rumour of King William III's death was untrue, is treated by physicians and surgeons representing different nations. Etching by P. Bouttats., c. 1690.
  • Alles in einer hand.
  • A couple assemble their false body parts: false teeth, a glass eye and wigs. Coloured lithograph by L. Boilly, 1825.
  • A man with an artificial nose. Drawing, c. 1791.
  • A couple assemble their false body parts: false teeth, a glass eye and wigs. Coloured lithograph by L. Boilly, 1825.
  • Artficial leg, iron with knee extention, 17th century.
  • A man sells a woman an artificial leg at national health service prices. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
  • Artificial limb factory in Rome: six women working at benches, one using a sewing machine and one stitching the back of a full-length leg. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • A sixteenth-century iron arm: two figures, including a cross-section. Line engraving by J. Skelton after S.R. Meyrick.
  • King Louis XIV in bed, having been told that the rumour of King William III's death was untrue, is treated by physicians and surgeons representing different nations. Etching by P. Bouttats., c. 1690.
  • King Louis XIV in bed, having been told that the rumour of King William III's death was untrue, is treated by physicians and surgeons representing different nations. Etching by P. Bouttats., c. 1690.