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  2. Daniel Sickles's leg - Wikipedia

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    Sickles's leg bones on display. The amputated right lower leg of Union Army general Daniel Sickles, lost after a cannonball wound suffered at the Battle of Gettysburg on July 2, 1863, is displayed at the National Museum of Health and Medicine.

  3. Lord Uxbridge's leg - Wikipedia

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    Lord Uxbridge portrayed by Henry Edridge in 1808, before the loss of his leg. Lord Uxbridge's leg was shattered, probably by a piece of case shot, at the Battle of Waterloo and removed by a surgeon. [1] [2] The amputated right limb became a tourist attraction in the village of Waterloo, Belgium, where it had been removed and interred. [3]

  4. Daniel Sickles - Wikipedia

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    Daniel Edgar Sickles (October 20, 1819 – May 3, 1914) was an American politician, soldier, and diplomat.. Born to a wealthy family in New York City, Sickles was involved in a number of scandals, most notably the 1859 homicide of his wife's lover, U.S. Attorney Philip Barton Key II, whom Sickles gunned down in broad daylight in Lafayette Square, across the street from the White House. [2]

  5. Haunted by military past and leg amputation, Army veteran ...

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    But this year, just two years after his leg was amputated, he’s running in 12 marathons, including the 47th annual Detroit Free Press Marathon on Oct. 20. The marathons gave him a goal.

  6. Amputation - Wikipedia

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    Amputation is the removal of a limb by trauma, medical illness, or surgery.As a surgical measure, it is used to control pain or a disease process in the affected limb, such as malignancy or gangrene.

  7. Italian may regain use of hand after nerve transfer from ...

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    A man may regain the use of his hand, left paralysed by a severe road accident, thanks to a pioneering nerve transfer operation from his partly amputated leg, doctors in northern Italy said ...

  8. James Edward Hanger - Wikipedia

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    James Edward Hanger (February 25, 1843 – June 9, 1919) was a Confederate States Army veteran of the American Civil War, a prosthetist and a businessman. It is reported that he became the first amputee of the war after being struck in the leg by a cannonball. [1]

  9. NHL amputee returns to ice with prosthetic leg, custom skate

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    Still, even after the amputation, Cunningham has remained an active member of the hockey world and is now working on getting his on-ice skills back with the help of his custom-made prosthetic.