Prosthesis
- Title
- Prosthesis
- Description
- Artificial leg with leather-wrapped wood shoe form at bottom; wood ankle and calf support with a thin leather covering extending upward; three holes drilled on front of calf piece and a metal band encircles top of calf; two iron shafts extend upward on sides with hinge joint at knee; base portion above calf wrapped with leather; top of iron shafts wrapped with leather; lacing holes at front of the leather bands for closure; two twill straps attached near top with metal and rubber pulley at end of each strap.
- Date
- 1895
- Original Format
- equipment
- Extent
- Local Identifier
- Country Doctor Museum
- Subject(s)
- Location of Original
- Country Doctor Museum
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