The Salem leg : under the patronage of the United States Government for the use of the Army and Navy

Format:

Book

Series:

Circular (Salem Leg Company) ; no. 5.

History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century.

Circular ; number five

History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prosthesis--United States.

Prosthesis.

Artificial legs--United States.

Artificial legs.

Artificial limb fitters--United States.

Artificial limb fitters.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (16 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

[Salem, Mass.]

Summary:

The History of Disabilities program provides access to primary sources written using terminology that was in common use by the medical establishment and general society at the time, and describes diagnoses, methodologies, procedures, and treatments that may no longer be used or were debunked by later research. Users may come across words and expressions describing individuals and groups that they find condescending, upsetting, disconcerting, offensive, and not acceptable today. MiFhGG

Notes:

Reproduction of the original from the New York Academy of Medicine.

OCLC:

123406940