Who made the first artificial limbs?
Today, medical sciences have become so advanced that many limbs of the body are made artificially and replaced by the competent surgeons. This advancement has come to this stage after a long process. The first person who made the artificial limbs was a French surgeon named Ambroise Pare (1510 – 1590). In the 1500s, surgery was not practised by physicians, but it was one of the specialities of the hair-cutting profession. As a young boy, Pare had the barber’s training. In 1541, he became a barber surgeon in army. Eventually, he became surgeon to the French king Henry II and to the king’s three sons who later succeeded him. Ambroise Pare was a very popular surgeon largely because he introduced many improvements in the existing methods. For example, he gave up the practice of cauterizing wounds with boiling oil, instead he tied off the exposed arteries and covered the wounds with simple dressings. Pare developed several artificial limbs, such as arms and hands. He made an arm that could b
