‘Saints Cosmas and Damian Performing a Miraculous Cure by Transplantation of a Leg’. 1495.
‘Mirror Box’, a therapy for people who experience ‘phantom pain’ after the amputation of a limb. This neuroscientific experiment was developed by V.S. Ramachandran in 1992.
A person who experiences “phantom sensations” gets the shape of her leg cast by the many hands of a group of performers. As she feels them approaching her absent limb, she instructs the performers on where to position their hands and fingertips so that the phantom form is revealed. The invisible leg is then carefully removed and captured inside a wooden chest.
