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- Era of Peg Legs and crutches
- Made of wood and leather
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- Oldest reference known referring to use of prosthetic leg when man named Herodotus wrote about prisoner who escaped jail by cutting off his own foot
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- 1st recorded documentation of prosthetic limbs
- Were made of wood and metal
- Dates back to Ehyptians
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- French surgeon Ambroise Pare (1510-1590) introduced amputation as lifesaving measure
- Soon also developed prosthetic limbs in scientific manner
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- Dutch surgeon Pieter Verdun invented hinged lower leg prosthetic with leather cuff
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- Community saw first prosthetic arm to be operated by muscles of opposite shoulder
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- Developed method for ankle amputation
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- Oldest known copper and wood leg was discovered
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- Dubois L. Parmelee of NYC made improvements to attachment of artifical limbs
- Fastened body socket to limb using atmospheric pressure
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- American Civil War caused the start of the American prosthetics field.
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- Dr. Vanghetti inveted limb that could move along with muscle contractions
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- U.S. government made deal with military companies to improve prosthetics over weapons
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- Specifically lower limbs
- Suction sock for above-knee prosthetics created at USC Berkeley
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- Eric Barron and Mark Mosely
- Incorporated metal to distribute force better
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- Ysidro M. Martinez invented below-the-knee prosthetics
- Avoided some problems associated with conventional artifical limbs
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- Today, prosthetics made from high tech plastics and carbon fiber
- More lifelike and also move more realistically through muslce contractions
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- Roman General Marcus Sergius... lost right hand in battle of second Punic war
- Later received artificial hand made out of iron and soon back in battle
