How to Make a New Leg: A Brief History of Lower Extremity Amputations and Prosthetic Reconstruction


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  1. [RealAudio] How to Make a New Leg: A Brief History of Lower Extremity Amputations and Prosthetic Reconstruction
  2. [RealAudio] History of Amputations
  3. [RealAudio] Amputation
  4. [RealAudio] Greek & Roman Era
  5. [RealAudio] Hippocrates
  6. [RealAudio] Celsus 30AD
  7. [RealAudio] "Next" 1500 years
  8. [RealAudio] "Gersdorff 1517"
  9. [RealAudio] Prosthetics
  10. [RealAudio] "Prosthetics"
  11. [RealAudio] Change in Warfare Tactics
  12. [RealAudio] Change in Warfare Tactics
  13. [RealAudio] Ambrose Pare 1510-1590
  14. [RealAudio] Wood Cutting
  15. [RealAudio] Instruments
  16. [RealAudio] Turin 1536
  17. [RealAudio] Turin, cont'd
  18. [RealAudio] Ambrose Pare
  19. [RealAudio] Pare Quote
  20. [RealAudio] Pare, cont'd
  21. [RealAudio] Ambrose Pare
  22. [RealAudio] Tetanus
  23. [RealAudio] 1600s to 1800s
  24. [RealAudio] Amputation
  25. [RealAudio] Prosthetics
  26. [RealAudio] American Civil War
  27. [RealAudio] American Civil War
  28. [RealAudio] Civil War Anesthesia
  29. [RealAudio] Civil War
  30. [RealAudio] Civil War Quote
  31. [RealAudio] Civil War Anesthesia
  32. [RealAudio] Civil War Techniques and Tools
  33. [RealAudio] Civil War Techniques and Tools, cont'd
  34. [RealAudio] Civil War "Improvements in Health Care"
  35. [RealAudio] Great Civil War Benefaction 1862
  36. [RealAudio] Notable Names
  37. [RealAudio] Problems
  38. [RealAudio] World War I
  39. [RealAudio] World War I Amputation
  40. [RealAudio] World War II
  41. [RealAudio] Research Funding
  42. [RealAudio] Research
  43. [RealAudio] Research
  44. [RealAudio] Foot Function
  45. [RealAudio] New Materials for Prostheses
  46. [RealAudio] Amputation Surgery
  47. [RealAudio] Change in Attitudes
  48. [RealAudio] Prosthetics
  49. [RealAudio] Suspension & Socket
  50. [RealAudio] Hanging Out
  51. [RealAudio] Foot
  52. [RealAudio] "A foot for every activity"
  53. [RealAudio] Running
  54. [RealAudio] Skier
  55. [RealAudio] How fast can you run?

   Author: Bob Vander Griend, MD / bobvg@ufl.edu
  Contact: BJ Strickland / STRICBJ@shands.ufl.edu
  Version: Produced by the Office of Medical Informatics
Copyright: 2001 by the University of Florida
 Location: http://medinfo.ufl.edu/other/histmed/griend/index.html
  Created: December 17, 2001   Modified: December 17, 2001