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By the late 19th century, prosthetics vendors would offer peg legs as cheaper alternatives to more intricate, lifelike artificial legs. 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
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comfortable for walking. 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.
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Bliquez, Lawrence J. (1996). "Prosthetics in Classical Antiquity: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Prosthetics". In Haase, Wolfgang (ed.).
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Nowadays, wooden peg legs have been replaced by more modern materials, though some sports prostheses do have the same form.
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Padula, Patricia A.; Friedmann, Lawrence W. (1987). "Acquired Amputation and Prostheses Before the Sixteenth Century".
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Peg leg (disambiguation)
Wooden Leg

Józef Sowiński
prosthesis
François Le Clerc
privateer
Cornelis Jol
Dutch West India Company
Peter Stuyvesant
Director-General
New Amsterdam
Blas de Lezo
Gouverneur Morris
Brook Watson
Pierre Daumesnil
Józef Sowiński
Billy Waters
Vuk Karadžić
Thomas L. Smith
Albert Chmielowski
Robert McAlpin Williamson
Republic of Texas
Texas Ranger
Kushibiki Yumindo
Peg Leg Bates
Peg Leg Sam
Joe "Pegleg" Morgan
Sita Subedi
"Peg leg"

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