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An early wooden prosthetic leg/foot device named after the Marquis of Anglesey. A hollowed core received the stump of the leg at a steel joint at the knee; motion to the wooden ankle-joint was controlled by posterior catgut strings and anteriorly by a coiled spring.
January 2, 2011