Removal of a body extremity by trauma, prolonged constriction, or surgery

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M0017295: Surgeon amputating a man's leg with a priest in atttendance, 1559

M0018013: Diagrams relating to the amputation of the leg after a gun-shot wound, 1815

A surgeon apologetically takes a breather during an amputation operation: a bottle of champagne waits in a cooler; a doctor and nurse canoodle while the patient screams. Colour process print after J.-A. Faivre, 1902.

M0018164: Amputation instruments used by a naval surgeon, 1942

An allegory of surgery. Engraving by R. Benard after B.L. Prevost, 17--.

Cross-sections of hands and fingers and amputations of fingers. Coloured lithograph by M. Hanhart after C. Heath after J.B. Léveillé.

M0018187: Illustration of a leg amputation, 1551

M0020267: Inscription on the back of a painting by George Cumberland describing a case of spontaneous amputation above the ankle, c.1820

Doctors at work during a storm on a battlefield at Sinankeui, China. Wood engraving after W. Small.

Silhouette of a one-legged figure on crutches: World Diabetes Day in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, 2005.

Currus triumphalis, è terebinthô, or, An account of the many admirable vertues of oleum terebinthinæ : more particularly, of the good effects produced by its application to recent wounds, especially with respect to the hemorrhagies of the veins, and arteries, and the no less pernicious weepings of the nerves, and lymphaducts : wherein also, the common methods, and medicaments, used to restrain hemorrhagies, are examined, and divers of them censured : and lastly, a new way of amputation, and a speedier convenient method of curing stumps, than that commonly practised, is with divers other useful matters recommended to the military chirurgeon, in two letters : the one to his most honoured, James Pearse, Esq, chirurgeon to His Royal Highness the Duke of York, and chirurgeon general to His Majestie's Navy Royal : the other, to Mr. Thomas Hobbs, chirurgeon in London / by James Yonge.

Outlines of the lectures on surgery / delivered by Sir Astley Cooper, bart at St. Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals.

Elements of surgery / by Robert Liston.

M0012306: Ancient Peruvian pots showing various medical conditions

Reminiscences of a medical life : with cases and practical illustrations / By Jonathan Toogood.

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Amputation

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Outlines of the lectures on surgery / delivered by Sir Astley Cooper, bart at St. Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals.

Elements of surgery / by Robert Liston.

M0012306: Ancient Peruvian pots showing various medical conditions

Reminiscences of a medical life : with cases and practical illustrations / By Jonathan Toogood.

Amputation

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Outlines of the lectures on surgery / delivered by Sir Astley Cooper, bart at St. Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals.

Elements of surgery / by Robert Liston.

M0012306: Ancient Peruvian pots showing various medical conditions

Reminiscences of a medical life : with cases and practical illustrations / By Jonathan Toogood.

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