Marcus Sergius is famed in prosthetics circles as the first documented user of a prosthetic hand. A description of Marcus Sergius is found in the seventh book of Pliny's Natural History, published in A.D. 77: :"Nobody - at least in my opinion - can rightly rank any man above Marcus Sergius, although his great-grandson Catiline shames his name. In his second campaign Sergius lost his right hand. In two campaigns he was wounded twenty-three times, … Wikipedia
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