The poor fellow was brought up with the rest of our wounded, andamputation being found necessary, his arm was taken off on the field at once; one of the Marines was also dangerously wounded, and died two days after.
A Sergeant of the 12th and one of the 74th had each undergone amputation of the leg, and hardly appeared to understand our words of encouragement.
The present noble volume, which has the royal arms stamped on the exterior, is one of the few old books which has not suffered amputation by recent binding.
After the amputation he suffered far less pain, but never recovered his self-control.
Cases where the balance lies between amputation and death have to be submitted to the sure judgment of Dr Debu.
If inheritance depends on the presence of disseminated gemmules derived from all the units of the body, why does not the amputation or mutilation of a part, especially if effected on both sexes, invariably affect the offspring?
We see the connection of the two processes in another way; for Trembley observed with the hydra, that the reproduction of the head after amputation was checked as soon as the animal put forth reproductive gemmae.
Amputation was impossible for the gangrene had reached too far.
Captain Wycherley began to hum a tune and wave his amputation knife like the conductor of an orchestra, whereupon the others locked arms and danced up and down the theatre, talking and joking.
The earliest original surgical work of any magnitude done in Kentucky, by one of her own sons, was an amputation at the hip-joint.
The first genuine hip-joint amputation executed on living parts was done by Kerr, of Northampton, England, 1774.
Brashear, 'the first and only surgeon in Louisiana who had successfully performedamputation at the hip-joint.
According to the experience of Civiale, many who have lost the penis, through amputation for disease or through disease itself, end in suicide.
Hey had then operated by amputation of the penis on twelve cases of cancer, nine of whom had had phimosis at the time of the development of the cancer.
Zielewicz reports fifty cases of amputation of the penis by the galvano-cautery loop, mostly for carcinoma, one of the fifty being for gangrene and one other for a large papillary tumor.
Simpson fearlessly collated statistics of this operation amongst the others, and proved that when performed under anaesthetics amputation of the thigh had its mortality reduced to 25 per cent.
One of the most fatal operations in those days, and one dreaded by patient and surgeon alike, was amputation of the thigh.
As early as 1847 he had been horrified to read in a report of the work done in the Edinburgh Infirmary, that out of eighteen cases of primary amputation performed during a period of four years only two survived.
As I did not believe him, he threw off the covers, and, to my horror, showed me that I had suffered amputation of both thighs, very high up.
Wilson came back with two aids, and explained to me that the bone was so crushed as to make it hopeless to save it, and that, besides, amputation offered some chance of arresting the pain.
It was found necessary, however, to perform secondary amputation in the case of Elison, and he died at Godhavn on the 8th of July.
Mr. Ohlsen suffered some time from strabismus and blindness; two others underwent amputation of parts of the foot, without unpleasant consequences; and two died in spite of all our efforts.
Meanwhile mortification had set in, and the gallant soldier died on the Sunday, from the effects of an amputation which he was then too weak to stand.
An early amputationmight have saved his life; but this was postponed in the expectation that the Rontgen Rays would enable the bullet to be extracted.
The successful removal of a molar which has given torture for weeks in a dentistless country, gains one as much gratitude as the amputation of a limb.
He could make an article in the "British Medical Journal" on Cholecystenterostomy amusing to a general reader, and make an ordinary remark as cutting as an amputation knife.
The main thing was speed, although the patient was under ether, and in quickly turning round the tip of the sword-like amputation knife, he made a gash in the patient's other leg.
A second and third amputationfollowed a year or two later, and he died.
Smith, serving on the staff of General Potter, was shot in the hand, and suffered amputation of a finger.
The wound was so severe that amputation was deemed necessary, and the operation was skilfully performed by Surgeon Prince.
Wars were of such constant occurrence that surgeons had ample opportunity for practice; and simple operations such as the amputation of limbs, were matters of very common occurrence.
He had submitted to a fresh amputation of the bob, and had so thoroughly humbled the seat of reason, that it was not possible for the most envious and malignant disposition to fancy he had a particle of brains left.
It not only lifts the creature into the air, and thus prevents its becoming a prey to other animals, but it also guards against the escape of the victim by the amputation of its own leg.
Self-amputation as a means of escape with captured animals, 144.
Some of the frost-bites were so severe as to render amputation necessary.
In crossing some sludgy ice between the hummocks, on the 11th, Lieutenant May unfortunately went through, and was so severely frost-bitten that he eventually had to suffer amputation of one of his great toes.
He had received a bullet in the arm, and, I believe, submitted to amputation afterward.
Nearly one third had suffered amputation above the knee.
In the first of these an amputation was being performed, and at the door lay a little heap of human fingers, feet, legs, and arms.
The preservation of the skin is therefore a cardinal principle in the amputation of all parts in which it is at all feasible.
If the joint becomes diseased an amputationof that toe is the quickest and surest method to relieve the suffering of the animal, and offers the best chance for an early recovery.
It should be added that, except in the case of a double-headed monster, or in case of the head protruding or nearly so, and one or both fore limbs presenting, it is rarely desirable to undertake amputation of the head.
If sloughing has gone far, amputation must be resorted to.
If the abdomen is so firmly impacted that it can not be dealt within this way, one hind limb and the hip bone on the same side may be removed as described under "Amputation of the hind limbs," page 205.
Very little is to be gained by cutting off the limb at the hock, and the stifle is less accessible than the hip, and amputation of the stifle gives much poorer results.
In proof of this, it is only necessary to consider the condition of those soldiers, sailors, or civilians who have suffered the amputation of a leg or arm.
The amputation may be required: (i) On account of polypoid degeneration of the anterior extremity of the turbinal.
Turbinotomy,’ or amputation of the whole inferior turbinal, was recognized as an operation some years ago.
If the anterior end has had the typical amputationperformed (see p.
If cervical hypertrophy is present, amputation by Marckwald’s method (see p.
This may be done not only because it is diseased, but even a healthy middle turbinal may require amputation in order to approach the accessory sinuses or diseases in the deeper regions of the nose.
An amputationhad been thought necessary on the leg of one of the native enemy.
