They had amputatedhis leg some few inches below the knee, leaving plenty for a grip.
Several other amputated cases have died with equal suddenness.
There were two other soldiers there at the same time; one from the 17th Michigan, with his leg off, the other from Massachusetts, with his arm amputated at the shoulder-joint.
I was wounded in the left arm, and had it amputated just above the elbow.
I had looked back at it through the "histories" and the amputated feet and hands in the hospital at Budapest--now, in the muggy air of a late August morning we were to tramp over the ground itself.
But he would not dance again, as both his feet had been amputated at the ankle and it was from the stumps that the doctor was unwrapping the bandages.
Why do persons whose legs and arms have been amputated fancy they feel the toes or fingers of the amputated limb?
Thus-- For each arm or leg amputated above the elbow or knee he would receive L8 0 0 a year.
Even the first autumn, when he returned with his amputated paw, a pair of sleek beavers came with him, so there were two beaver lodges in the pond during the second winter instead of one.
While Shaggycoat is making his way painfully back to his mountain lake, occasionally stopping to favor his freshly amputated paw, let us go back to the lake and see how Brighteyes and the young beavers have been spending the summer.
The bear immediately fell down on all-fours; but the amputated paw was on the side away from the wall of rock, and when he went down on the stump he was overbalanced, and came down with his whole weight on Grettir.
There she stands with her amputated arm-socket, as a mass of black basalt or lava to this day.
Behind a clump of trees were thrown the bodies of the dead, and the limbs amputated from the living.
He was an old man who formerly served in the navy, and had his leg amputated by Cazenove.
Cunningham, the Ohio soldier, with legamputated at thigh, has pick'd up beyond expectation; now looks indeed like getting well.
A, 9th United States Cavalry, shot by a shell last Sunday; right leg amputated on the field.
Nearly all of them had been taken out to the waiting ambulances except my Cockney friend in the bed next to mine, who had just had an arm amputated and was very ill.
At that time many men in the ward had limbs amputated because of frost-bite, and it was quite a usual thing for a visitor to remark, "Have you had frost-bite?
The doctor was only a boy in appearance, a little Scotchman, and as noble-hearted a man as ever amputated a limb.
But strange to say, it did not burst or injure any one, and was carried out and laid beside the mangled limbs which had been amputated in consequence of contact with just such instruments of death.
Nor shall I ever forget Young, a reckless boy of the New York Fire Zouaves, whose leg was amputated five times.
They had amputated the right leg, because the left one was the right one—it being the wounded one—and my right leg was now my left one, because it was the only one left.
I have heard persons say that an amputated limb still feels as if it were on—is that so?
Miller, whose leg was amputated below the knee, and who walked splendidly on his “Palmer leg,” when he got it.
Wells, noticing this, said to a by-stander that he believed that one, by inhaling a sufficient quantity, could have a tooth extracted or a leg amputated without pain.
More than this, I have seen a patient who had both his feetamputated at the ankle-joint run without shoes or stockings on the stone passages, without even the aid of a stick, and with very great swiftness.
Syme amputated with success the arm along with the scapula and outer half of clavicle, in a case in which he had previously excised the head of the humerus for a tumour.
George M'Lellan amputated arm and scapula in a youth of seventeen for an enormous encephaloid tumour.
Encouraged by such cases, Gaetani Bey of Cairo removed the whole of scapula and part of the clavicle in a case where he had amputated at the shoulder for smash.
An abdominal operation was performed, his arm was amputated and there was a suture in the occipital region.
If, in spite of the operation, the gangrene had continued I should have amputatedyour other leg as well.
You were threatened with gas gangrene, and if they had not amputated at once, it would have been the end of you, but instead .
He hurriedly amputated an arm, and a fortnight later in the hospital of a near-by city they extracted the broken ribs, for which they substituted two silver plates.
They told me that the toes would have to be amputatedunless animation could be restored within a short period.
Blackborrow, whose toes were so badly frost-bitten in the boats, had to have all five amputated while on the island.
They are all performed in the wards--no time to move them; one poor fellow exhausted with haemorrhage, has his leg amputated as a last hope, and dies ten minutes after the Surgeon has left him.
One amputated Stump died 2 hours after we received him, one compound Fracture just as we were getting him into Bed--in all, twenty-four cases died on the day of landing.
I am getting a Screen now for the amputations, for when one poor fellow, who is to be amputated to-morrow sees his comrade to-day die under the knife, it makes impression and diminishes his chance.
Many are the incidents in history of a favorite general who showed his men how to bear pain by calmly smoking a cigar while a surgeon amputated an arm or a leg or performed some other rather important surgery.
A blacksmith in the distant West, whose leg had been crushed by the fall of a huge beam, actually had himself carried into his shop and amputated his own limb above the knee, searing the blood vessels with hot irons as he proceeded.
No sooner are they round from an anaesthetic than they are up and smoking, quite oblivious of an amputated limb!
Of course, the fact is that you would only seem to have feeling in the amputated arm.
Sidenote: The Place Where Sensation Occurs] As a matter of fact, this is not the case, for if one of your arms should be amputated, you would still feel a tingling in the fingers of the amputated arm.
It is clear that they will one day be sloughed off like a mass of dead animal tissue, even if they are not amputated like a living limb that has grown hopelessly diseased.
The scattered atoms of a sand-heap are as perfect as before they were dislodged; not so an amputated arm.
False or imaginary feeling or sense perception such as occurs in hypochondriasis, or such as is referred to an organ that has been removed, as an amputated foot.
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