A History of Limb Amputation PDF Download

Author: John R. Kirkup
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1846285097
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 191

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Book Description
This book opens with a unique historical review of natural amputations due to congenital absence, disease, frostbite, animal trauma, and to punishment and ritual. The advent of surgical amputation and its difficulties form a major part of the book, summarising the evolution of the control of haemorrhage and infection, pain relief, techniques, instrumentation, complications, prostheses, results and case histories. Alternative procedures, increasingly important in the last two centuries, are also debated.