This is a rather moving exhibit in Glasgow University's Hunterian Museum. When the Erskine Hospital opened in 1916 to care for the many soldiers and sailors injured in WWI, the sheer number of amputees meant there was a shortage of prosthetic limbs.
One of the hospital's surgeons decided to solve this problem by contacting the surrounding Clydeside shipyards and asking them to make artificial limbs for his patients. These are three examples made by the pattern shop at Yarrows.
