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Prosthetics have come a long way from the wooden big toe found on a a 3000-year-old mummy, or the Etruscan bridgework made of human teeth.
In the article "Horrors of Anzac aftermath laid bare", The Age Newspaper in Melbourne tried to uncover WW1 soldiers' personal stories. The timing was perfect - just in time for the 100th anniversary of the war in 2014. Private Bertram Byrnes' war service record, for example, is on the Australian National Archives website. It tells, in sparse, bureaucratic language, that Byrnes enlisted at 24, served in France and was twice wounded in action. The last injury, a gunshot wound to the face in September 1918, saw him invalided home. But there is only one letter from him in the records, written in 1938, the year before the war broke out. Byrnes asked for duplicates of service medals lost in a bushfire; he wanted to wear them on Anzac Day. Mind you, reading the service dossier tells us very little about Private Byrnes or his family, or his wound and what it actually did to him and those he loved. A medical report by Repatriation doctors refers to ''much facial disfigurement''. The wound was so severe that he dribbled constantly and had to live on what was called ''slop food''. His disfigurement, altered little by a series of painful operations, was such that most employers rejected him - he was shunned, ostracised, took up a remote block of land as a soldier settler, and found himself too weak to work it. In the Repatriation Reports you can hear the hushed voices of what they called ''the whispering men'', men whose lungs were corroding, who died years after the war from the effects of being gassed. You can see the shaking bodies of the nerve cases - a war-wrecked generation crippled by physical and psychological scars. And women's voices are threaded through this extraordinary archive; wives struggling to survive on inadequate pensions; mothers pleading the case of disabled sons; daughters afraid of violent, traumatised fathers. But history is much more than an endless catalogue of horrors. Like a generation of our countrymen and women, their battles didn't end in 1918. ** After WW1 ended in Britain, tragedy continued for a lifetime for those who never saw their husbands, sons or fathers again. Even for those soldiers who managed to return home alive, the armistice offered little consolation to those who were indelibly marked by war, with their missing legs and their horribly scared faces. But in Britain and elsewhere, the misery couldn't be avoided - those physically damaged by the fighting could not be locked away in asylums or prisons. Somehow those young men had to get civilian jobs, find a wife, have babies and run normal homes. Ex-serviceman wearing a prosthetic plate attached to spectacles. Photo credit: Gillies Archives, Queen Mary's Hospital Sidcup. In discussing the public rhetoric of bodily and facial reconstruction, Suzannah Biernoff concentrated on the written evidence - newspapers, magazines and the records of medical staff. The response to facial disfigurement was defined by an anxiety that was specifically visual. Patients refused to see their families and fiancés; children reportedly fled at the sight of their fathers; nurses and orderlies struggled to look their patients in the face. Some soldiers were so severely mutilated that passengers got out of their train seats and moved to other carriages. How many soldiers were physically devastated as a result of the war? Joanna Bourke (BBC History 4, 14, April 2013) says 41,300 British soldiers had one or more of their limbs amputated. That number did not include Australians, New Zealanders, Canadians, South Africans, Indians or anyone else who came to the rescue of the motherland. Nor does it include injuries other than limb amputations. One New Zealand plastic surgeon, Dr Harold Gillies, was a man who had worked in France during the war with the Red Cross. With a team of artists and sculptors back in post-war Britain, he developed many techniques of plastic surgery on 5,000+ soldiers with facial injuries. Dr Gillies slowly and carefully rebuilt the human wrecks he met in his Queen Mary’s Hospital in Roehampton, and gave them new lives. The limbless men were also treated at Queen Mary’s Hospital where most were fitted with artificial limbs. With convalescence and physiotherapy, the men could walk again and rejoin the land of the living as equals. I am assuming the government agreed to paying the enormous and endless health care costs for two important reasons: a] to honour the soldiers' sacrifice in war and b] to make them productive members of an integrated, post-war society. The quid pro quo, as Professor Bourke noted, was that the limbless men had to take responsibility to practise endlessly with their artificial limbs and to "pass" as able-bodied citizens. The Royal Pavilion in Brighton was converted into The Pavilion Hospital for Limbless Men, quickly opened in 1916 to accommodate this sudden flux of devastating wounds and modelled on the Roehampton House hospital. A workshop was built on the grounds of the Pavilion so that patients could learn new skills in carpentry and engineering, to help in their future careers. Open spaces allowed the men to play team sports. A plaster cast is made in order that the eventual mask will perfectly cover all facial injuries General Hospital, Wandsworth Photo credit: Imperial War Miuseum Fiona Reid, in Broken Men: Shell Shock, Treatment and Recovery in Britain 1914-30, found that the men suffering shell-shock had the most difficult recovery, because their wounds were impossible to see. Many military commanders believed the shell-shocked soldiers were simply malingering, while civilians back at home thought the wide eyed, jittery men were lunatic. After the war, the situation was made worse because many of the shell-shocked struggled with a pension system that failed to give them security. Thus the conflict between the political rhetoric and the lived experience of many wounded ex servicemen continued for 20 years. How could the nation memorialise the war and remember the unending sacrifice made by the men, while at the same time forgetting the shell-shocked? How strange, since the first medical study of shell shock appeared in The Lancet in 13th Feb 1915. It was estimated that already by December 1914, 10% of British officers and 4% of enlisted men were severely injured by nervous and mental shock. Professor Bourke believed that the absent limbs of amputees came to exert a special patriotic power, to the extent that the disabled soldier could be hailed as ‘not less but more of a man’. Facially injured men were horrific to look at and were avoided by civilians at all cost, but those men were also recognised for their sacrifice. In fact almost all the physically wounded bore the visible proof of their valour and sacrifice. Men who were _mentally_ disturbed by war were the only ones who had to live with the suspicion of malingering.
Prosthetic Design STEM Challenge After learning the history and uses of prosthetic legs, students use the engineering design process to build a prosthetic leg that is interchangeable for multiple people. This design challenge is followed by a research extension to design a prosthetic leg for an animal. Lesson Sequence: Introduce real-world careers of biomedical engineers and show a video on fabricating a prosthetic leg Read about the history of prosthetics Learn important concepts related to prosthetics and complete an activity sheet Complete the "Who needs a Prosthetic?" activity sheet Complete the Prosthetic Leg design challenge in small groups Research extension: research and design a prosthetic leg for an animal. Students will research the function and structure of the limbs of the animal chosen and then draw and label a design idea for a prosthetic. Real-world STEM Connection: Biomedical Engineering Duck prosthetic leg History of prosthetics Real-world application of prosthetics for humans As with many STEM activities, this challenge can be tailored to students of various skill levels and abilities. Included in this product: Detailed teachers guide with links to resources Editable teacher companion presentation slides Photos and videos of student examples Editable printed & digital student handouts to guide them through the design process Videos to motivate and support learning Editable Google Slides STEM journal for distance learning STEM Career Connections and real-world examples Science handouts Student recording sheet for each step of the process Suggested Materials: Many different materials can be used for this challenge. Here are some suggestions that worked well for our students. Duct tape, masking tape & hot glue gun with glue sticks String, rope or twine Thick wooden dowels, 1 x 2 wood pieces, broomstick handles, cardboard tubes, plastic pipes Strong cardboard & regular cardboard Sponges, pool noodles, bubble wrap & old cloth pieces Velcro and brass fasteners Screwdriver (to punch holes in cardboard) Scissors or a small handheld saw Looking for more STEM lessons? Our team of engineers and educators is dedicated to developing low-prep and high-quality STEM activities for any classroom! Click below to learn more: Vivify's Scope & Sequence + Standards Alignment Vivify's Resource Guide Learn about the 3 Stages of STEM Vivify STEM Membership Customer Tips: • Click the Green ★ to follow our store and get notifications of new products and freebies • Leave feedback to receive TpT credit for use on future purchases • Questions? Contact us in the Product Q&A section ♥ Connect With Us ♥ Email us: [email protected] STEM Blog Pinterest Facebook Twitter Instagram TikTok YouTube
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Demonstrating a prosthetic leg (NCP 15884), National Museum of Health and Medicine Description: Demonstration of a prosthesis of a mid-thigh amputation. The prosthesis was manufactured from materials available to the patient while he was a prisoner under the Japanese at Bilibid, Luzon, P.I. Photo credit Letterman General Hospital Photographic Laboratory. Date: 25 March 1945 Photo ID: NCP 15884 Source collection: OHA 250: New Contributed Photographs Repository: National Museum of Health and Medicine, Otis Historical Archives Rights: No known restrictions upon publication, physical copy retained by National Museum of Health and Medicine. Publication and high resolution image requests should be directed to the NMHM (www.medicalmuseum.mil/)
