File:Artificial limbs for a thalidomide child, 1961-1965. (9660575567).jpg

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Description	From the DHSS Limb Fitting Centre at Roehampton, London. During the 1960s, the drug thalidomide, formerly used as a sedative, was found to produce congenital deformities in children when taken by the mother during early pregnancy. Children were commonly born with the absence of the long bones of the arms, with the legs and feet often also being affected. The Limb Fitting Centre at Roehampton, London, creates and fits prosthetic limbs for children affected by thalidomide. Science Museum website states: Pair of "swivel-walkers" designed for a child, born with limb difference designed at the Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital formerly called the Ontario Crippled Childrens Centre in Canada, made in the United Kingdom by Hanger with modifications of a chest piece made by Dr Ian Fletcher, 1966
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Image title	From the DHSS Limb Fitting Centre at Roehampton, London. During the 1960s, the drug thalidomide, formerly used as a sedative, was found to produce congenital deformities in children when taken by the mother during early pregnancy. Children were commonly born with the absence of the long bones of the arms, with the legs and feet often also being affected. The Limb Fitting Centre at Roehampton, London, creates and fits prosthetic limbs for children affected by thalidomide.
Author	Science Museum
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Short title	Artificial limbs for a thalidomide child, 1961-1965.
Width	2,546 px
Height	3,504 px
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Pixel composition	RGB
Orientation	Normal
Number of components	3
Horizontal resolution	300 dpi
Vertical resolution	300 dpi
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File change date and time	15:11, 28 August 2013
Exif version	2.21
Color space	Uncalibrated
Special instructions	Science & Society Picture Library 020 7942 4400 piclib@nmsi.ac.uk
Urgency	5
Category	Orthopaedics
Unique ID of original document	adobe:docid:photoshop:cd87dff8-054b-11d7-9456-c424401ef021
Copyright status	Copyrighted
Date and time of digitizing	13:16, 28 August 2013
Date metadata was last modified	16:11, 28 August 2013
Keywords	Thalidomide; Dhss Limb Fitting Centre; Artificial Legs; Artificial Arms; Limbs; Legs; Arms; Limb Fitting Centre; Roehampton; birth defects; prostheses; drugs
Country shown	United Kingdom
IIM version	2