Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: 10.25143/amhr.2010.IX.08
Title: Solvitur Ambulando. A brief history of production and use of artificial limbs
Authors: Mulder, Willem
Keywords: History of prosthetics;history of artificial limbs;history of production of artificial limbs;artificial limbs in museum collections;prosthetics in museum collections;protēžu vēsture;protēžu ražošanas vēsture;protēzes muzeju kolekcijās
Issue Date: 2010
Publisher: Rīgas Stradiņa universitāte
Abstract: "I’ve done it! Have just come in from a 10-mile walk! The best I’ve done yet. Time 2 hrs 40 mins – not racing time, I am afraid, but I hope to improve on it. My Hanger is doing very good service. I can never be too grateful to Hangers for the skill and patient care with which they fitted me, and also for the sympathy and kindness shown to me. The loss of a limb can never be exactly a joke, and it makes a wonderful difference when your fitters realise that their work has a human as well as a technical aspect." So far a citation of an enthusiastic miss G. G. Vaughan from Lincoln, England. She is talking obviously about her artificial leg that was produced and fitted by the Firm J. E. Hanger & Co Ltd in Roehampton, London in 1936.
DOI: 10.25143/amhr.2010.IX.08
Appears in Collections:Volume 09 (28)

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