Samuel Wood, miller on the Isle of Dogs, lost his arm in the cogs of the mill, 1737. Saved by surgeons at St. Thomas's Hospital, Southwark. Copperplate engraving from John Caulfield's Portraits, Memoirs and Characters of Remarkable Persons, Young, London, 1819.

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