Observations on amputation of the thigh : and on the merits of that operation as compared with excision of the knee / by William MacCormac.

  • Maccormac, William, Sir, 1836-1901
Date:
1868
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Credit: Observations on amputation of the thigh : and on the merits of that operation as compared with excision of the knee / by William MacCormac. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    should still practise it, because I think its results, when it succeeds, are so good that we are justified in running some extra risk to secure them. I was much gratified to find the opinions I have endeavoured to justify in the foregoing paper were almost identical with those of a surgeon who had won for himself so eminent a position by hard and honest work. I think enough has been now said to prove that excision of the knee is an operation only to be preferred to amputation where the circumstances of the case are very exceptionally favourable, and only after the most mature deliberation. At the same time I entertain the sincere conviction that the excision of joints, both for disease and for injury, is, in suitable cases, a real progress both in the principles and practice of surgery. i
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