It's hard to top Sacramento's rich and fascinating history—this is Gold Rush country, after all!
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The Egyptians were the early pioneers of prosthetic technology. It was made of bronze and iron, with a wooden core, apparently for a below-knee amputee. C., Herodotus wrote of a Persian seer who was condemned to death but escaped by amputating his own foot and making a wooden filler to walk 30 miles to the next town. D.) wrote of a Roman general in the Second Punic War (218-210 B. He had an iron hand fashioned to hold his shield and was able to return to battle.
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