Amputation

Amputation is also advisable when an infection is so severe that the life of the patient is in jeopardy.

Frederick G. Banting - Nobel Lecture 1965

In ordinary surgical language the name Amputation is applied to all cases of removal of limbs, or portions of limbs, by the knife, though in strict accuracy it should be restricted to those cases in which a limb is removed _in the continuity of a bone_, its removal _at a joint_ being called a Disarticulation.

A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners Joseph Bell 1874

But even though it is inconsistent with American principles of individuality and freedom, many leftists in the U.S. publicly argue for the adoption of the Islamic law called Amputation for theft certainly would certainly solve many problems in America's crime-ridden streets.

American Thinker 2009

But even though it is inconsistent with American principles of individuality and freedom, many leftists in the U.S. publicly argue for the adoption of the Islamic law called Amputation for theft certainly would certainly solve many problems in America's crime-ridden streets.

American Thinker 2009

"Amputation," in Holmes's _System of Surgery_, vol.iii. pp. 52, 53.

A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners Joseph Bell 1874

[24] For details see article "Amputation" in Cooper's _Surgical

A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners Joseph Bell 1874

Amputation of a limb for a patient with advanced diabetes like Mr. Kauder can cost about $16,000, he says, and CareMore's amputation rate is about 60% lower than the average for traditional Medicare.

The Future of U.S. Health Care Anna Wilde Mathews 2011

Amputation is not, happily, the usual result of a fish bite, Beaumont adds – though extremely rare cases of cardiac failure and gangrene have been reported.

The inside track ... on paddling 2011

April 'I shall not agree with either way Editors are troubled with nice amendings & if Doctors were as fond of Amputation as they are of altering & correcting the world woud have nothing but cripples'.

Letter 399 2009

Amputation led to tetanus and soon resulted in his death.

Kim Bensen: I've got a bridge in Brooklyn ... 2010