A HISTORY OF LIMB AMPUTATION

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This book opens with a unique historical review of natural amputations due to congenital absence disease frostbite animal trauma and to punishment and ritual. The advent of surgical amputation and its difficulties form a major part of the book summarising the evolution of the control of haemorrhage and infection pain relief techniques instrumentation complications prostheses results and case histories. Alternative procedures increasingly important in the last two centuries are also deFirst part of the book presents a unique and coherent study of natural amputations due to congenital absence disease frostbite toxins domestic and wild animal trauma and nonmedical reasons related to punitive ritual and legal decisions. Following the introduction of gun powder in the 15th century surgical action became significant. The subsequent development of surgical amputation and its difficulties form a major part of the book summarising the evolution of the control of haemorrhage and infection pain relief techniques instrumentation complications prostheses results and case histories. In addition alternative procedures increasingly important in the last two centuries are debated and factors associated with selfamputation in extremis not as rare according to press reports are also examined./This richly illustrated :book will be of interest to medical and social historians surgeons limbfitting surgeons and prosthetists anaesthetists limb manufacturers social historians ethnologists and ampand Sources. Natural Causes of Dismemberment. Accidental Causes for Amputation: AutoAmputation. Ritual Punitive Legal and Iatrogenic Causes. Cold Steel and Gunshot Causes. Elective Amputation: Early Evolution to the End of the 17th Century. Elective Amputation: From the 18th Century to 1846. Elective Amputation: From 1846 to Recent Times. Interpretations of Amputation by Society Patients and Surgeons. Surgical Instrumentation and Equipment. Indications Timing and Procedures. Stumps: ReattachmentManagement Complications Revision and Care for LimbFitting. Artificial Limbs andFrom the reviews:/After a description of the more common causes for amputation of the limbs the author analyses more extensively the different causes:trauma cases of various etiologiesritual punitive legal amputationiatrogenic causeswar amputations. A very uncommon book bringing some interesting overview along the history of surgery.Ł (JeanYves Jenny European Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery & Traumatology Vol. 21 2011)/This is a well written and beautifully illustrated history of amputation describing the causes and techniques of amputation and ending with more recent developments in rehabilitation and prosthetics. the book should be seen as a fascinating insight into how surgical and anaesthetic techniques and operative instruments have developed over the centuries. Surgeons and physicians from a variety of different specialties and anyone with an in

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