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Title: Artificial bootees, Roehampton, England, 1965-1975 [Go to resource]
Description: Pair of stout leather bootees supplied to a Thalidomide affected child with lower limb phocomelia, to protect the prominent lateral malleoli when lower limbs were not being worn, thus allowing the child to shuffle about in or outside the house. Made by Hanger c.1970. License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ Subjects: bootees Temporal: 1965-1975 Source: Science Museum Creator: Hanger Orthopaedic Group, Inc Identifier: http://collectionsonline.nmsi.ac.uk/grab... Go to resource More Like this...
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