Prosthetics in Antiquity
The Ancients
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Ancient Literature
It's almost putting these different pieces of a jig sore together and seeing what fits. I have to read a lot of ancient literature, had to be quite imaginative about where i thought these might turn up. It's hard to search for them because there isn't really a greek or a latin word that's used for them. What tends to happen is that they're described so it's wooden foot, iron hand, glass eye. So you sould have put together these combinations of nouns and adjectives and searched for those instead. And i found over a hundred ancient literary references to prosteses. But im sure that there are more hidden away in works thatar off the
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