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Civil War Amputations Influenced Prosthetics

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Modern surgery began with saws and iron hands – how amputation transformed the body in the Renaissance

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Scholars often depict the American Civil War as an early watershed for amputation techniques and artificial limb design.

Amputations were the most common operation of the war, and an entire prosthetics industry developed in response.

Europeans went from hesitating to perform amputations in 1500 to multiple amputation methods and complex iron hands for the affluent by 1700 .

Iron hands were the Renaissance precursor to the “bionic-hand arms race” of today ’s prosthetics industry.

They prompted surgeons to think about prosthesis placement when they operated and created optimism about what humans could achieve with artificial limbs.

Wearers operated them by pressing down on the fingers to lock them into position and activating a release at the wrist to free them.

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