Artificial Leg, photographic print, c. 1864.
With more than 20,000 Union soldiers surviving surgical amputations in the last three years of the conflict, the scale and carnage of the American Civil War hastened advancements in the art and technology of prosthetic limbs.
The National Library of Medicine, Washington, D.C.
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