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1737 case of the miller, Samuel Wood:
Arm and scapula of the patient were torn off due to forearm becoming caught in a rope attached to the cogs of a mill. The veins and arteries were stretched taught when the amputation occurred, bleeding very little. The nerves were drawn clean out of the arm and snapped clean at the scapular base. The surgeon who made the initial visit tied off the blood vessels, and superficially dressed the wound. This dressing was kept in place for several months, and the patient suffered no severe symptoms.
William Cheselden introduced a method of amputation dressing (for both accidental and intentional amputation) that consisted of constant loose bandaging, ensuring that the wound was covered completely, but not cut off from air, or artificially sewn shut. Prior to the innovations in amputation medicine brought about by the Napoleonic and American Civil Wars, Cheselden’s method was by far the most successful in treating amputation wounds.
Anatomy of the Humane Body: Edition VI. William Cheselden, 1741.
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Waiting for a bus.
James Dromgole Linton, from A London garland, selection by William Ernest Henley, London, New York, 1895.
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