The American journal of the medical sciences (1827)
[Thorofare, N.J., etc.] Charles B. Slack [etc.] · leaf 417
oy his left hand when he stands on the left side of the limb about to be removed. If an operation of this kind is done towards the lower part of the thigh, it is impossible to make the anterior flap sufficiently large unless the skin and other textures are well elevated before the knife is applied.… … and are so far separated from the fe- mur, that it would not, judging from physiological considerations only, be un- reasonable to anticipate very considerable retraction. On the living body this actually occurs, and whatever operation is performed, unless some provision is made on this account, so…
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