peg leg

By the late 19th century, prosthetics vendors would offer peg legs as cheaper alternatives to more intricate, lifelike artificial legs.{{citation

|first=George Edwin |last=Marks

|publisher=A. A. Marks |year=1888

|title=A Treatise on Marks' patent artificial limbs with rubber hands and feet

|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=nh0x_03RfgwC&pg=PA47

|page=47}}

Even as vendors touted advantages of more complicated prostheses over simple peg legs,

according to a contemporary surgeon, many patients found a peg leg more comfortable for walking.{{citation

|first=Hermann |last=Tillmanns|editor-first=Lewis Atterbury |editor-last=Stimson

|publisher=D. Appleton and company |year=1895

|title=Title The principles of surgery and surgical pathology: general rules governing operations and the application of dressings

|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=BP41AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA128

|page=128}} According to medical reports, some amputees were able to adjust to the use of a peg leg so well that they could walk 10, or even 30, miles in one day.{{citation

|first=Thomas Pridgin |last=Teale

|year=1858

|title=On amputation by a long and a short rectangular flap

|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=fB4DAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA31

|pages=29, 31

}}

Nowadays, wooden peg legs have been replaced by more modern materials, though some sports prostheses do have the same form.Clarke, Carl D. (1965) Prosthetics Standard Arts Press, Butler, Maryland, {{OCLC|5083790}}, page 182

• François Le Clerc (died 1563), privateer
• Cornelis Jol, (1597–1641), privateer and Dutch West India Company admiral
• Peter Stuyvesant (1612–1672), Dutch Director-General of New Amsterdam{{Cite web |url=http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/B/stuyvesant/stuyvesant.htm |title="...he lost his leg at Saint Martin.." |access-date=2012-02-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110312050908/http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/B/stuyvesant/stuyvesant.htm |archive-date=2011-03-12 |url-status=dead }}
• Blas de Lezo (1687–1741), Spanish admiral
• Gouverneur Morris (1752–1816), American politician
• Brook Watson (1735–1807), Lord Mayor of London
• Pierre Daumesnil (1776–1832), French general
• Józef Sowiński (1777–1831), Polish General
• Billy Waters (1778–1823), aka Black Billy, former African American slave, then sailor in the British Navy until he became an amputee. Also a busker of prolific merit.
• Vuk Karadžić (1787–1864), Serbian linguist
• Thomas L. Smith (1801–1866), American mountain man
• Albert Chmielowski (1845–1916), Polish artist, founder of the Albertine Brothers and Sisters, saint of the Catholic Church
• Robert McAlpin Williamson (1804?–1859), nicknamed "Three-legged Willie", Republic of Texas Supreme Court Justice, state lawmaker, and Texas Ranger
• Kushibiki Yumindo (1859?–1924), Japanese impresario
• Peg Leg Bates (1907–1998), dancer
• Peg Leg Sam (Arthur Jackson) (1911–1977), American blues musician
• Bill Veeck (1914–1986), American baseball executive
• Joe "Pegleg" Morgan (1929–1993), first non-Hispanic member of the Mexican Mafia, an American criminal organization

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• Pitkin, Mark R. (2009) Biomechanics of Lower Limb Prosthetics Springer verlag, New York, {{ISBN|978-3-642-03015-4}}
• Seymour, Ron (2002) Prosthetics and orthotics: lower limb and spinal Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, {{ISBN|0-7817-2854-1}}
• Warren, D. W. (2001) James Gillingham: surgical mechanist & manufacturer of artificial limbs Somerset Industrial Archaeology Society, Taunton, England, {{ISBN|0-9533539-5-8}}

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