The Ancient Artificial Leg of Capua: First 3D Print after 2300 Years

Andreas Otte; Simon Hazubski

doi:10.3390/prosthesis3030019

Prosthesis (Jul 2021)

The Ancient Artificial Leg of Capua: First 3D Print after 2300 Years

Andreas Otte,
Simon Hazubski

Affiliations

Andreas Otte: Peter Osypka Institute of Medical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering, Medical Engineering and Computer Science, Offenburg University, Badstr. 24, D-77652 Offenburg, Germany
Simon Hazubski: Peter Osypka Institute of Medical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering, Medical Engineering and Computer Science, Offenburg University, Badstr. 24, D-77652 Offenburg, Germany

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/prosthesis3030019
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 3, no. 3
pp. 190 – 193

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Little detail has been reported about the ancient Capua leg, which was excavated in the winter of 1884/85 a few kilometers from the present-day Campanian town of Santa Maria Capua Vetere and dated to about 300 B.C. [...]

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Published in Prosthesis

ISSN: 2673-1592 (Online)
Publisher: MDPI AG
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Medicine
Website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/prosthesis

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