Untold. Civil War prosthetics : a step forward in battlefield medicine

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James Edward Hanger was hit by shrapnel from a cannonball at the beginning of the American Civil War, but rather than settle for a pegleg, he returned home to Virginia and began designing an altern...

James Edward Hanger was hit by shrapnel from a cannonball at the beginning of the American Civil War, but rather than settle for a pegleg, he returned home to Virginia and began designing an alternative - the world's first articulated prosthetic that could bend like a real leg.

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