The amputations were reserved till the morrow, and the merciful magic of ether was not thought necessary that day, so the poor souls had to bear their pains as best they might.
You ask if nurses are obliged to witness amputations and such matters, as a part of their duty?
When it is recalled that amputations yielded a mortality from sepsis of at least one in four, the extensive use of alcohol in hospital practice two generations ago will be readily understood.
Such a ligature we use in amputations to control the flow of blood; and such also are employed in the castration of animals and the ablation of tumours.
The same thing also occasionally occurs with great rapidity in performing amputations and removing tumors in the human subject.
Cheston (1766) believed that the translation of matter from one point to another was a frequent occurrence after amputations of the larger limbs.
One room is cleared and arranged for an operating room, where bullets and pieces of shell are removed and amputations are made if necessary.
Some had suffered amputations and the heads of others were so bandaged that no feature could be seen, only a tube to the nose permitting breathing.
Amputations are very rare compared with wars of more than fifty years ago.
Your doctors in France perform amputations as they please on our wounded.
They tell us that in the base hospitals they never get a clean wound; even the emergency amputations and trephinings and operations done in the Clearing Hospitals are septic, and no one who knew the conditions would wonder at it.
Some of the amputations die of septic absorption and shock, and you wouldn't wonder if you saw them.
Indeed, in all amputations of the lower extremity, this is the preferable method of fixing the sound limb.
That the mortality after operations for its cure follows the same laws as after amputations and other great operations on the extremities, the danger being in proportion to the size of the limb and the proximity of the injury to the trunk.
In all amputations of the upper extremity, it is of importance, and indeed a rule scarcely to be departed from, to leave as much of the limb as possible; for here the longer the stump, the more useful is it to the patient.
In civil practice, the results are somewhat different; a greater proportion of primary amputations are unsuccessful, and the secondary turn out more favourably than the statements of military surgeons would lead one to believe.
Irritable and painful stumps are more frequently met with after the amputations of the arm and forearm than any other.
The mortality there has been fearful, and the percentage of deaths afteramputations positively disgraceful.
Some of the bullets had been extracted, some of the most urgent amputations made.
It was crammed full, and amputations were being performed night and day.
Amputations were still being performed with skill and celerity worthy of a Guthrie or an Astley Cooper.
They acknowledged, nevertheless, that amputations had been too common in the French armies.
This author's manner of thinking is very far from being established as might be wished, amputations being still too frequent.
The proportion of recoveries in amputations in the upper third of the femur in the Crimean war was under 13 per cent.
Indeed, in the Crimea, primary amputations were repeatedly performed where shock had not wholly disappeared, and no harm resulted from the practice.
The amputations were done by the late Director–General of the Army Medical Department.
Mr. Guthrie showed, from the experience of the Peninsular war, that the loss in secondary amputations had constantly exceeded that from primary amputations in both the upper and lower extremities.
Let the operation be done with a fine saw and sharp knife, smoothing the amputations that are made by the saw; and if they are large, put a little well made clay over the wound, to prevent the air from mortifying the shoot.
Secondary amputations for sepsis or hæmorrhage were attended by fair results, but I can give no statistics.
Intermediate amputations were indicated in cases of septic infection and those of hæmorrhage; they seldom did well, and should be avoided if possible.
All the primary amputations that I saw were either for shell or large bullet injuries.
So-called intermediate amputations are always to be avoided if possible; the results were consistently bad, and the operation should only be undertaken in cases of severe sepsis where little can be hoped from it, or for secondary hæmorrhage.
Fractures in the middle and lower thirds of the bone were more easy to treat successfully, but these also added to the list both of amputations and fatalities.
Amputations are going on,--the attendants are dressing wounds.
The amputations were congenital, and on the right side there was a very small stump of the upper arm remaining, admitting the attachment of an artificial apparatus.
Self-mutilation in man is almost invariably the result of meditation over the generative function, and the great majority of cases of this nature are avulsions or amputations of some parts of the genitalia.
After selling the medical attendant his feet he admitted that he had purposely performed the amputations himself, starting about a year previously.
Intrauterine amputations are of interest to the medical man, particularly those cases in which the accident has happened in early pregnancy and the child is born with a very satisfactory and clean stump.
Simultaneous, synchronous, or consecutive amputations of all the limbs have been repeatedly performed.
Symonds reports cases of skin-grafting of large flaps from amputated limbs, and says this method is particularly available in large hospitals where they have amputations and grafts on the same day.
The interesting instances of major amputations are so numerous and so well known as to need no comment here.
The same principle may be applied to amputations at almost any other part of the body.
Commencing with the most distal, and gradually working our way upwards, we find that partial amputations of the toes are extremely rare.
This operation is very frequently required to remedy painful and unhealed stumps, the result of amputations lower down, specially those in which the long posterior flap from the muscles of the calf has been used.
But, on the other hand,-- Amputations remove a portion of the body; excisions a much less one.
That the primary amputationshere are far more successful than secondary ones.
In amputations involving the metacarpals for injury, it is always important to avoid entering the carpo-metacarpal joint, hence if it can be done it is best to saw through the bones at the required level, rather than disarticulate.
In one word, it may be stated that, with the exception of those amputations performed through the lower third of the bone, the flap method is to be preferred, and the flaps should in almost every case be made by transfixion.
And this will have to be the guiding principle in most amputations at this joint; the surgeon must just cut his coat according to his cloth--get his flaps where and how he can.
For these reasons, secondary amputations below the knee are of very common occurrence.
Not to save anything which may be detrimental or in the way,--will guide us in describing the amputations of the upper extremity.
Amputations are always necessarily nearer the centre than the corresponding excisions, and statistics show that the fatality of operations increases in exact proportion as they approach the centre.
The method used by Mr. Spence in amputations just above the knee-joint obtains the advantages of Teale's method, and avoids many of its disadvantages.
Think of doingamputations through the thigh with that equipment!
Several amputations of the thigh, for example, were taken away next day, and many of them must have spent the next twenty-four hours in the train, for the trains were very tardy in reaching their destination.
Noting amputations may lessen to a great extent a search through the fingerprint files.
All prints bearing amputations should be referenced to the necessary files containing prints other than amputations for reference searches.
Illustration: 359] Classification of amputations and fingers missing at birth When one or more amputations appear upon a fingerprint card, it may be filed separately from those having no amputations in order to facilitate searching.
A separate file should be maintained for all prints bearing amputations and which have an unequivocal statement or marking from the contributor to that effect.
This point is made in view of the fact that in the fingerprint files of the FBI and some police departments, the fingerprint cards reflecting amputations are filed separately.
One of the amputationsis our arrival of the night, who last occupied the waggon: a consultation has just decided the fate of his limb.
At ten I assist my seniors during twoamputations and a resection.
I strolled through the main street, now crowded with unfortunates, and pausing at the Court House, found the seat of justice transmuted to a headquarters for surgeons, where amputations were being performed.
A table for amputationswas set up in the open air, and nakedness glared hideously upon the sun.
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