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Artificial Limbs

Name: Artificial Limbs
Author: Auguste Broca

by Auguste Broca, Charles Ducroquet

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by deaurider, Karin Spence and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2017-10-13

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Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Surgery, Military Amputation Artificial limbs Orthopedics

About the authors

Auguste Broca

1859–1924

A French surgeon and medical writer, he brought clinical experience and a teacher’s clarity to his books. His work reflects the world of late 19th- and early 20th-century medicine, when surgery was rapidly changing and becoming more precise.

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Charles Ducroquet

1872–1929

A pioneering French orthopedic surgeon, he wrote practical works on prosthetics and helped push the field forward at a time when modern rehabilitation medicine was still taking shape. His career also carried real personal risk: later accounts say he died from the effects of early X-ray exposure.