Practical observations upon amputation, and the after-treatment.

  • Alanson, Edward, 1747-1823.
Date:
1779
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Credit: Practical observations upon amputation, and the after-treatment. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    for the Knife, as directed by Mr. Sharpe, and to cut either above or below it, as it may happen: with this Intention, they roll it round the Limb loofely. Fleijter indeed, in his Book of Surgery, recommends the Tape to be applied tight round the Limb, in order to keep the flefhy Parts clofe to the Bone, his Intention being to amputate, by carrying his Incifion through the Integuments and Mufcles down to the Bone at once. Lie like- wile fays that the Amputation is to be made below the Tape, as does Monro in the Medi¬ cal Effays. The French Surgeons, in their Memoirs, are likewife of the fame Way of thinking. Le Dr an does not apply the Tape for the Direction of the Knife, but to keep the Mufcles compare and clofe to the Bone. I mu ft here remark, that cutting above the T ape will prevent the Operator from being embarraffed when he is to make his Second Incifion, which is to go through the Mufcles to the Bone, as the Tape generally flips off^ and is in the Way of the Knife, if the Firft Incifion is made below it. Another Advan¬ tage, which arifes from pulling the Tape as B,s tight