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How Exacty Was A Hook A Good Replacement For A Hand In The Pirate Days?

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Togo30 | 19:34 Sat 04th May 2013 | How it Works
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I'm watching Peter pan (hook) and wondered what use was a hook? I would've thought if you lost your hand then the next best thing would be 5 hooks to replicate the lost hand? Why a singular hook? What use was that?
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slack night in the static?

don't they have an onsite bar?
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Eh?
In those days it would have been very difficult and expensive to make 5 small hooks that were strong enough to be of much use, 1 large hook however would have been more practical.
What can you do with 5 small hooks that you cant do with one big one?
will a hook squeeze out your blackheads though?
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Ratter could a hook lift successfully a tankard of ale? The only thing a hook would've been good for is fishing and as a weapon.

Humbersloop i'd try anything as my nose looks horrible, there must be a half teaspoon of oil easily if i squeeze them out
"could a hook lift successfully a tankard of ale?"

no but his other hand could.
I can tell you two things it would be useless for, picking you nose and wiping your bum.



Dave.
A hook was cheap. A Swiss army hand replacement with 50 blades took all your doubloons/pieces of eight.
History of artificial hands here
http://biomed.brown.edu/Courses/BI108/BI108_2003_Groups/Hand_Prosthetics/history.html
A hook was very basic and probably only used if there were no resources to make anything better, on a pirate ship for example.
It is as well to remember that until the introduction of antiseptic surgery around 1850 , over 80% of people who had to have an amputation died from infection or loss of blood.
good question... I mean, unless retired pirates used to find work as coat stands...
I can't think of anything else that would enable them to hold on to any part of the ship in rough seas and allow them the use of their good hand.
Abu Hamza presumably manages, with a hook on his right arm. Given the quality of prosthetic surgery nowadays, he might have been able to have had a fitting that is more like a hand, but he chooses to make do with his right hook.

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