Pegleg

A pegleg is a prosthesis, more specifically an artificial limb of carved wood fitted to the remaining stump of a human leg, as often seen in pirate movies.^[1] Wooden peg legs have been replaced by more modern materials, though some sports prostheses do have the same form.^[2]

Contents 1 Famous peg leg wearers 1.1 Historical 1.2 Fictional 1.2.1 Not Quite Peglegs in Fiction 2 Railroads 3 Notes 4 Further reading 4.1 Books 4.2 Articles

Famous peg leg wearers

Historical

• François Leclerc (~1554), privateer
• Cornelis Jol, (1597–1641), privateer and admiral of the Dutch West India Company
• Peter Stuyvesant (1612–1672), Dutch director-general of New Amsterdam
• Clayton Bates (Peg Leg Bates) (1907–1998), dancer, Afro-American amputee RAK
• Blas de Lezo (1687–1741), Spanish admiral
• Gouverneur Morris (1752–1816), American politician
• Józef Sowiński (1777–1831), Polish 19th century general
• Daniel Sullivan (~1871), Chicagoan
• Thomas L. "Pegleg" Smith (1801–1866), American prospector
• Robert McAlpin Williamson (1804? – December 22, 1859), nicknamed "Three legged Willie", Republic of Texas Supreme Court Justice, state lawmaker and Texas Ranger.
• Peg Leg Sam (Arthur Jackson) (1911–1977) American blues musician
• Dennis Collins, British sailor^[3]
• Giraud de Mauleon Seigneur de Gourdan, French governor of Calais

Fictional

• Pete, Disney's oldest recurring character.
• Captain Ahab, character in Moby Dick
• Silas Wegg, character in Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
• Wirt, character in the computer games Diablo and Diablo II. His pegleg can be used to open the Secret Cow Level.
• Fidget from The Great Mouse Detective.
• Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody, character from the Harry Potter books and movies.
• Seamus, a character in the American animated television series Family Guy who not only has two peglegs, but two peg arms as well.
• Jonathan Small a character in the Sherlock Holmes story The Sign of the Four.
• Hector Barbossa, a character in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.

Not Quite Peglegs in Fiction

• Long John Silver in the book Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stephenson, was missing a leg, but did not have a peg leg. He hopped around on a crutch. Ironically, most people associate him with pirates having peg legs.
• Davy Jones, a character in the film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, was missing a leg, but it was replaced by the leg of a crab.
• The Scotsman, in the Samurai Jack TV series, has his missing leg replaced by a machine gun.
• Cherry Darling, in the Grindhouse film Planet Terror, has a missing leg replaced by an assault rifle.

Railroads

• Fulton Chain Railroad also known as the "Peg Leg" from its wooden rails.
• Bradford and Foster Brook Railway also known as the "Peg Leg" from its wooden support piles.

Notes

Further reading

Books

• Murdoch, George and Wilson, A. Bennett (1998) A primer on amputations and artificial limbs C. Thomas, Springfield, Illinois, ISBN 0-398-06800-3
• 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

Articles

• Bliquez, L. J. (1996) "Prosthetics in classical antiquity: Greek, Etruscan and Roman prosthetics" In: Haase, W. and Temporini, H. (editors) (1996) Aufstieg und niedergang der Römischen welt II Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 2640–2676
• Cantos, Mae (2005) "Pirates & Peg Legs: a Historical Look at Amputation and Prosthetics" In: Whitelaw, William A. (2005) (editor) Proceedings of the 14h Annual History of Medicine Days Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, pp. 16–20, OCLC 225558769
• Finch, J. (2011) "The ancient origins of prosthetic medicine" Lancet 377(9765): pp. 548–549
• Padula, Patricia A. and Friedmann, Lawrence W. (1987) "Acquired Amputation and Prostheses Before the Sixteenth Century" The Journal of Vascular Disease 38(2 Pt. 1): pp. 133–141, doi: 10.1177/000331978703800207
• Reeves, Nicholas (1999) "New lights on ancient Egyptian prosthetic medicine" In: Davies, W. V. (editor) (1999) Studies in Egyptian Antiquities. A Tribute to T.G.H. James British Museum Press, London, pp. 73–77, ISBN 0-86159-123-2
• Thurston, Alan J. (2007) "Paré and prosthetics: the early history of artificial limbs" ANZ Journal of Surgery 77(12): pp. 1114–1119, doi: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2007.04330.x
• Wilson, Philip D. (1922) "Early weight-bearing in the treatment of amputations of the lower limbs" The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery 4: pp. 224–247

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