“These amputations stopped infections from spreading into the body … the same way medieval amputations worked in humans,” he said, adding that the findings mark the first recorded example of ...

German grave reveals medieval doctors had a surprising fix for amputations Dean Murray Published November 2, 2023 2:17pm Updated November 14, 2023 1:12pm ...

Amputations were the most common operation of the war, and an entire prosthetics industry developed in response. ... toes, arms and legs in ways medieval surgeons hadn’t.

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Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a young hunter-gatherer in Borneo who survived the amputation of the lower left leg around 31,000 years ago, in a discovery that could rewrite the ...

Archaeologists in Germany uncovered the remains of a medieval man with a “sophisticated” centuries-old iron prosthetic hand. The complete skeleton of a middle-aged man at the time of his death ...