Young boy from Westmoreland with bone tumors in the hands and wrists, 1795. Bell and Alex Munro recommended amputation or a treatment of mercury, laudanum and Confectio-Japonica (compound electuary of catechu). Copperplate engraving by Edward Mitchell after an illustration by John Bell from his own Principles of Surgery, as they Relate to Wounds, Ulcers and Fistulas, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1815.

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