A History of Limb Amputation presents a unique and coherent study of natural amputations due to congenital absence, disease, frostbite, toxins, domestic and wild animal trauma, and non-medical reasons related to punitive, ritual and legal decisions.

A History of Limb Amputation summarising the evolution of:

• control of haemorrhage and infection
• pain relief
• techniques
• instrumentation
• complications
• prostheses
• results and case histories

Contents

1. Natural Causes of Dismemberment
2. Accidental Causes for Amputation: Auto-Amputation
3. Ritual, Punitive, Legal and Iatrogenic Causes
4. Cold Steel and Gunshot Causes
5. Elective Amputation: Early Evolution to the End of the 17th Century
6. Elective Amputation: From the 18th Century to 1846
7. Elective Amputation: From 1846 to Recent Times
8. Interpretations of Amputation by Society, Patients and Surgeons
9. Surgical Instrumentation and Equipment
10. Indications, Timing and Procedures
11. Stumps: Reattachment, Management, Complications, Revision and Care for Limb-Fitting
12. Artificial Limbs and Rehabilitation

Index

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