The interesting instances of major amputations are so numerous
and so well known as to need no comment here. Amputation of the
hip with recovery is fast becoming an ordinary operation; at
Westminster Hospital in London, there is preserved the right
humerus and scapula, presenting an enormous bulk, which was
removed by amputation at the shoulder-joint, for a large
lymphosarcoma growing just above the clavicle. The patient was a
man of twenty-two, and made a good recovery. Another similar
preparation is to be seen in London at St. Bartholomew's
Hospital.
Simultaneous, synchronous, or consecutive amputations of all the
limbs have been repeatedly performed. Champeuois reports the case
of a Sumatra boy of seven, who was injured to such an extent by
an explosion as to necessitate the amputation of all his
extremities, and, despite his tender age and the extent of his
injuries, the boy completely recovered. Jackson, quoted by
Ashhurst, had a patient from whom he simultaneously amputated all
four limbs for frost-bite.
Muller reports a case of amputation of all four limbs for
frost-bite, with recovery. The patient, aged twenty-six, while
traveling to his home in Northern Minnesota, was overtaken by a
severe snow storm, which continued for three days; on December
13th he was obliged to leave the stage in a snow-drift on the
prairie, about 110 miles distant from his destination.
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