. Operative surgery. Fig. 488.—How to grasp amputating Pig. 489.—How to carry knife around limb. stoop downward and forward sufficiently to carry first the knife and fore-arm under, and then the knife over the limb, placing its heel as near tothe upper surface of the limb as is convenient, when, with a sawing motion,the knife is drawn toward the operator beneath the limb, then upward AMPUTATIONS. 463 between it and the operator, and so on around until it joins the begin-ning of the cut, making a complete circular division. If the knife beproperly grasped, the handle will pass readily b
. Operative surgery. Fig. 488.—How to grasp amputating Pig. 489.—How to carry knife around limb. stoop downward and forward sufficiently to carry first the knife and fore-arm under, and then the knife over the limb, placing its heel as near tothe upper surface of the limb as is convenient, when, with a sawing motion,the knife is drawn toward the operator beneath the limb, then upward AMPUTATIONS. 463 between it and the operator, and so on around until it joins the begin-ning of the cut, making a complete circular division. If the knife beproperly grasped, the handle will pass readily between the thumb andforefinger as the hand passes around the limb, enabling the surgeon to ease, and without the least man-make the section with perfectifestation of stiffness. 2. Themethod may be reversed byfirst passing the hand and knifeover instead of under the liml)(Fig. 490); otherwise the ma-nipulations are the same. Thelatter plan, however, is less nat-ural, besides which it exposes thearm of the operator, and theintegument to be divided last,to th
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