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" The part of any solid body remaining after the rest is taken away," is a flattering description of one of our stumps of the thigh. It is in reality with us barely more than a peg whereon to hang an artificial limb. In youth, in middle age, in advanced... "
The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal - Page 118
1865
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The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences: Being a Digest ..., Volume 40

1865 - 464 pages
...and shrivelled materials around ; and this even with the perfection of a stump. The defective resulls of excision I am disposed, in accordance with what...latter unscathed. The foot, leg, and thigh do as much as in tho cases of distortion or shortening after disease ; and who, under such circumstances, would...
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Canada Medical Journal and Monthly Record of Medical and Surgical ..., Volume 1

1865 - 614 pages
...excision I am disposed, in accordance with what I have said before, to class with defective stmaps. In justice to the subject I now deal with, I take...that may readily be made up by a high-soled boot or shoc. There are left the lower end of the thigh, nearly the whole of the leg, the ankle and foot ;...
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Lectures on the Progress of Anatomy and Surgery During the Present Century

Sir William Fergusson - 1867 - 366 pages
...of the limb. In ordinary amputation under such circumstances, half the thigh, or possibly twothirds, may be left. The body is mutilated to nearly the entire...latter unscathed. The foot, leg, and thigh do as much as in the cases of distortion or shortening after disease ; and who, under such circumstances, would...
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The Medical Times and Gazette, Volume 2

1864 - 732 pages
...perfection of a stump. The defective results of excision I am disposed, in accordance with what I nave said before, to class with defective stumps. In justice...left the lower- end of the thigh, nearly the whole leg, the ankle and foot, tho former: two slightly damaged, the latter unscathed. The foot, leg, and...
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The Lancet, Volume 2

1864 - 802 pages
...the limb. In ordinary amputation under such circumstances, half the thigh, or possibly two-thirds, may be left. The body is mutilated to nearly the entire...latter unscathed. The foot, leg, and thigh do as much as in the cases of distortion or shortening after disease ; and who, under such circumstances, would...
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