Ancient Artificial Limbs
Even so long ago as 800 8.0. the making of artificial legs bad attained ■ome perfection for a Roman tomb of that date at Capua being opened about ten years since, a remarkable specimen was discovered. Tbis leg is now at the London Royal College of Surgeons, and is made of thin pieces of bronze fastened by bronze nails to a wooden core, whilst two iron bars, having holes at their far ends, are attached to the upper - extremity of the bronze. A quadrilateral piece of iron found near the position of the foot is thought to 'have g'ven strength to it, but the 1^ root as well as the wooden oore had * both crumbled away. The skeleton to which this artificial leg belonged had a band of sheet bronze round its \\ waist, edged with small rivets, to Which probably the leather lining of v the leg was fastened; the tipper third of the bronze was hollow, the lower two-thirda being filled with wood,
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Manawatu Herald, 9 November 1897, Page 3
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167Ancient Artificial Limbs Manawatu Herald, 9 November 1897, Page 3
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