Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Illustrations of amputations / by W.P. Cocks. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![Circular Amputation of the Arvi. a. The integuments. b. The muscles. c. Os humeri. d. Vessels and nerves. Operation.—T]xQ patient is generally seated on a ihair, with the arm in the extended position, and lupported by an assistant, who can also compress he artery in the middle of the arm, or the tourniquet ^lay be used for that purpose. The skin being etracted, and the operator, standing on the outer <ide of the limb, carries his hand under it, armed I'ith the middle size amputating knife, and makes a krcular incision through the skin to the muscles ; lie integuments are then to be retracted, but not Hssected from the subjacent parts, as a few touches i the knife are sufficient to divide whatever slips of Sjllular membrane that connect them to the muscles. See pages 88, 89. VOL. I.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2228168x_0027.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
