Removal of the head of the femur, dislocated in consequence of
strumous disease, or for fracture of the head or neck of the bone,
caused by an external wound; cases most favorable for the operation;
anatomical description of the operation; the operation on the dead
body; commencing for the removal of the head of the bone: completing,
by amputation of the thigh at the hip-joint, the injuries being such
as to require that operation; ligature of a great artery, close to a
large branch, successful; completing the operation for the removal
of the head of the femur; case of removal of the head of the femur;
wounds of the knee-joint from musket-balls, with fracture of the bones,
require immediate amputation; secondary amputation does not offer such
a chance of success; compound fractures of the patella without injury
to other bones; the joint involved; lodgment of the ball in the joint;
the ball penetrating the condyles of the femur; wound of the popliteal
artery; cases for amputation; clean incised wounds of the knee-joint;
case of Colonel Donnellan; excision of the knee-joint; formerly rarely
successful; Mr. Jones, of Jersey, mode of operating; Dr. Gurdon Buck’s
case of excision of the knee-joint, for anchylosis, following a gunshot
wound; Mr. Jones’s improvement of the operation; amputation of the
leg; by the circular incision; the flap operation, as performed by Mr.
Luke; amputation at the tuberosity of the tibia: removal of the head
of the fibula; excision of the ankle-joint; removal of the os calcis;
Mr. Syme’s amputation at the ankle-joint; sloughing of the under flap,
and its causes; gunshot wounds of the foot; wounds of the fore part of
the foot by cannon-shot, grape-shot, or musket-balls; amputation at the
tarsus of the foot, leaving the astragalus and os calcis; operation
for the removal of the astragalus and os calcis by Mr. Wakley, jun.;
necessary not to wound the anterior tibial artery; amputation of a
single metatarsal bone; M. de Beaufort’s artificial foot. pp. 90-120