Alex Joyce
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An artificial device to replace or augment a
missing or impaired part of the body
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1500 BC- Egyptians
 Wooden Toes
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300 BC- Italians
 Artificial Leg
Time Period
Years
Where?
Who?
What?
Ancient World
~ 1500 BC
Egypt
Egyptians
Wooden Toe
Ancient World
~ 300 BC
Italy
?
Bronze/Wooden Leg
Second Punic War
218-210 BC
Italy
Romans
Iron Hand
The Dark Ages
476-1000
?
?
Peg Legs/Hand Hooks
The Renaissance
1400-1800
Greece/Italy
Greeks/Romans
The Renaissance
1508
Germany
von Berlichingen
Manipulative Iron hands
The Renaissance
Early 1500s
Algeria
Barbarossa
Silver Arm
The Renaissance
1696
?
Verduyn
Modern Times
1858
?
Bly
Anatomical Leg
Modern Times
1863
England
Parmlee
Aluminum Limbs
Iron, Steel, Copper and
Wood Limbs
Nonlocking below-knee
prosthesis
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Also called neural prosthetics
A series of devices that can substitute motor,
sensory or cognitive modality that might
have been damaged as result of an injury or
disease.
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Enables an amputee to control motorized
prosthetic devices and to regain sensory
feedback.
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Dr. Todd Kuiken
Surgery makes
artificial arms easier to
control
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Patient (Jesse Sullivan)
Bionic Hand
Norton, Kim M.. "A Brief History of
Prosthetics."inMotion. Amputee Coalition, 05 2009.
Web. 13 Nov 2012. <http://www.amputeecoalition.org/inmotion/nov_dec_07/history_prosthetic
s.html>.
 Steenhuysen, Julie. "Surgery makes artificial arms
easier to control." . Reuters, 10 2009. Web. 12 Nov
2012. <http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/02/10/ussurgery-arms-idUSTRE5197SO20090210>.
 Yiu, Stephanie. "To Arms." . Northwestern University,
n.d. Web. 12 Nov 2012.
<http://www.northwestern.edu/magazine/winter2007
/feature/kuiken.html>.
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