Artificial limbs, and the amputations which afford the most appropriate stumps in civil and military surgery / by Heather Bigg.

  • Bigg, Robert Heather, 1853-1911.
Date:
1885
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Artificial limbs, and the amputations which afford the most appropriate stumps in civil and military surgery / by Heather Bigg. 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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    PEEFACB. This book forms another part of tlie series I liavo undertaken wliicli deals with tkose deformities and defi- ciencies of the body that are amenable to meclianical treatment. At the commencement of this year I had intended to bring out the .part that treated on Hernia, it being then nearly ready for press, but several circumstances induced me to change my mind. The country had been for the past few years engaged in a series of wars which had sent home numbers of unfortunate men minus limbs, for many of whom it had been my duty to superintend the construction of the Government appliances. After the late Egyptian cam- paign I had the opportunity of seeing a number of maimed men at Netley Hospital, and at the instruction of Surg.- Gen. J. T. C. Ross, who was acting for the Princess of Wales's Branch of the National Aid Society, of devising such special appliances as that splendid charity granted. Farther, I received the Queen's commands to pei'form a similar duty for certain soldiers in whom Her Majesty had been graciously pleased to specially interest herself, when she made a personal visit to cheer and comfort the wounded in her Royal Hospital at Netley last May. Having had these recent opportunities of very attentively
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