I'm looking for information on low-tech (think Civil War era, roughly) prosthetic limbs: not quite the archetypal pirate's peg leg, but something much nearer that than modern prosthetics with plastics and internal mechanisms.
What I'm having trouble finding is information on what it was like to actually use those sorts of prosthetics: how much pain/difficulty in motion/side-effects would come of having one attached below the knee, for example. Any idea on where I should look for this kind of data? My Google fu in this area is weak.
What I'm having trouble finding is information on what it was like to actually use those sorts of prosthetics: how much pain/difficulty in motion/side-effects would come of having one attached below the knee, for example. Any idea on where I should look for this kind of data? My Google fu in this area is weak.