MedTech Memoirs: Artificial Limbs
From: Medical Design Technology - 04/22/2015

Believe it or not, the earliest recorded use of an artificial limb dates back
to the book of Vedas from Sanksrit, India, believed to have been written
between 3,500 and 1,800 BCE. It describes Queen Vishpla, an Indian warrior
queen, who lost one of her legs during a battle with a neighboring territory.
After having healed, she was fitted with an iron leg to return to the
battlefield. Unfortunately, there hasn't been a discovery of the leg, or any
like it, in that part of the world.

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