[Sculptor of The Cripple of the Geneva Museum of Art and History. An ancient Greek portrayal of hemimelia?].
An archaic Greek terracotta vase in the Art and History Museum at Geneva depicts a man deprived of his left arm and with two legs ending in a stump below the knees. Did he suffer from a traumatism (amputation), a mutilating disease or congenital malformation (hemimelia)? A survey of written and iconographic sources throws light on the methods and limits of ancient surgery, and on the chances of survival of abnormal children in archaic and classical Greece.
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D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D004480:Ectromelia / Q000266:history*; D000076145:Greece, Ancient; D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008512:Medicine in the Arts; D012613:Sculpture / Q000266:history*