The extraordinary early prostheses made by James Gillingham, 1900

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James Gillingham lived in Chard, England, where he had a small shoe-making business called “Golden Boot”. His career in prosthetics began in 1865 when he produced an artificial arm for a local cannoneer who had been injured in an accident but was given up as a lost cause by London doctors. Gillingham’s great success in […]

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