. Commentaries on the surgery of the war in Portugal, Spain, France, and the Netherlands, from the battle of Roliça, in 1808, to that of Waterloo, in 1815; with additions relating to those in the Crimea in 1854-55, showing the improvements made during and since that period in the great art and science of surgery on all the subjects to which they relate. Revised to October, 1855. Amputation above Knee. a, wooden bucket for stump; h, pin to attach foot, c, the rolling foot; d, straps of attachment to body. ?Amputation below Knee, No. 1. a, wooden shape to receive knee; ft, pin; c, rolling foot;
. Commentaries on the surgery of the war in Portugal, Spain, France, and the Netherlands, from the battle of Roliça, in 1808, to that of Waterloo, in 1815; with additions relating to those in the Crimea in 1854-55, showing the improvements made during and since that period in the great art and science of surgery on all the subjects to which they relate. Revised to October, 1855. Amputation above Knee. a, wooden bucket for stump; h, pin to attach foot, c, the rolling foot; d, straps of attachment to body. ?Amputation below Knee, No. 1. a, wooden shape to receive knee; ft, pin; c, rolling foot; c?, e, straps of attachment. Amputation below Knee, Ko. 2, a, wooden bucket to receive the whole of stump; b, fixture to foot; c, rolling foot; d, straps for knee. 101. M. de Beaufoy has invented a foot for the woodenpin used by the soldiers in the Invalides, at Paris, who hadsuffered amputation above or below the knee; this, Mr. Bigg,of Leicester Square, has tried on some old soldiers at Chel-sea Hospital; one of them reports that he has not only found 120 PRIMARY AMPUTATION. his step to be steadier, but that he could walk t,wice the dis-tance in the same time that he could with his ordinary advantage of the invention is, that whereas a commonwooden pin only gives one point of support, and conse-quently the body is obliged to raise itself so as to describe
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