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Picture of the Month (March 2008)
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Dedicated User Captions:
1. Predecessors of the doorknob were complicated and ineffecient.
(by DJ)
2. Türstehertraining
(by Luther Blissett)
3. Science in action
Read more captions (not voted, latest on top)
- laboratory gymnastics
(by inVivo)
- exercises in style
- i see your white door and i want to stretch my arms
- "7 percent is what you say, 55 percent is how you look"
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Sadow's Family-Gymnastics
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The picture illustrates an "apparatus for gymnastics at home for the whole family" which was sold in the cataloque on surgical and medical instruments from Waldek & Wagner, 1905.
In this cataloque you can also find orthopaedic machines like the "leg stretching machine" or the "wristband for the treatment of the writer's cramp", artifical extremities and other apparatus for the care and relief of the sick.
Waldek & Wagner. 1905. Preisbuch über chirurgische und medizinische Instrumente und Behelfe, Bandagen, orthopädische Maschinen und künstliche Extremitäten, Verbandstoffe, Apparate zur Pflege und Erleichterung für Kranke. Prag | |
Related Items:
For more illustrated catalogues on instruments and apparatus please have a look at our trade catalogues in the Library section. The collection spans the years 1859 to 1937 and includes 190 volumes from Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic and the USA - available online. |
Picture Source:
Waldek & Wagner. 1905. Preisbuch über chirurgische und medizinische Instrumente und Behelfe, Bandagen, orthopädische Maschinen und künstliche Extremitäten, Verbandstoffe, Apparate zur Pflege und Erleichterung für Kranke. Prag | |
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