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Amputation, Surgical

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  • A report on amputations at the hip-joint in military surgery / by George A. Otis.
  • A report on amputations at the hip-joint in military surgery / by George A. Otis.
  • On gun-shot wounds of the extremities, requiring the different operations of amputation, with their after-treatment : establishing the advantages of amputation on the field of battle to the delay usually recommended ... / by G.J. Guthrie.
  • A report on amputations at the hip-joint in military surgery / by George A. Otis.
  • On the application of suitable mechamism to a case of amputation of both hands / by F. Gustav Ernst.
  • A report on amputations at the hip-joint in military surgery / by George A. Otis.
  • A report on amputations at the hip-joint in military surgery / by George A. Otis.
  • On the application of suitable mechamism to a case of amputation of both hands / by F. Gustav Ernst.
  • On the application of suitable mechamism to a case of amputation of both hands / by F. Gustav Ernst.

Works from the collections

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    Note on the death-rates after amputations in hospital practice / by George W. Callender.

    Callender, George Washington, 1792-1864. | Date: 1872
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    A case of amputation at the shoulder-joint / by E.R. Peaslee.

    Peaslee, E. R. (Edmund Randolph), 1814-1878. | Date: 1853
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    Delle amputazioni nei casi di necrosi invaginata : nota / del dottore Luigi Ciniselli.

    Ciniselli, Luigi. | Date: 1869
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    On amputation by a long and a short rectangular flap / by Thomas P. Teale.

    Teale, T. Pridgin (Thomas Pridgin), 1831-1923. | Date: 1858
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    Die Beinamputation an Friedrich III. in Linz im Spiegel der Chirurgie seiner Zeit / von Manfred Skopec.

    Skopec, Manfred, 1946- | Date: 1993
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Related topics

Artificial Limbs
Leg
Military Medicine
Warfare
Amputation
Prostheses and Implants
History, 19th Century
General Surgery
Wounds, Gunshot
Amputees

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