Example of Claude Pouteau's doctrine of tying nerves to arteries in amputations. Drawing of nerves imprudently tied in along with the Femoral Artery in Amputation. Femoral artery a, profunda b, inguinal glands cc, anterior crural nerve d, two chief branches of the anterior crural nerve tied in ee, and clot of blood above the ligature f. Handcoloured copperplate engraving 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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