A Manual of the Operations of Surgery. Joseph Bell

3

The line 3 in Plate I. shows the direction required. It will not be necessary to carry the incision so far up for the external as for the common iliac.

4

On the Arteries and Veins, p. 421.

5

Cyclopædia of Practical Surgery, vol. i. p. 277.

6

John Bell's Prin. of Surg., vol. i. 421; Dublin Jour., vol. iv. 321.

7

Observations in Clinical Surgery, Syme, pp. 171-3.

8

Brit. Med. Jour. 1867, Oct. 5.

9

International Encyclopædia of Surgery, vol. iii. p. 466.

10

Poland, Guy's Hosp. Report, ser. iii. vol. vi.

11

Mr. W. Thomson's most interesting paper on this subject is full of information down to the latest date.

12

Lancet, Jan. 5, 1867.

13

Lancet, May 1879.

14

Dublin Quarterly Journal, Nov. 1867.

15

W. Zehender—Monatsbl. für Augenheilkunde. 1868.

16

Butcher, Op. and Cons. Surgery, p. 861.

17

Leçons Orales, iv. 530.

18

Ed. Med. and Surg. Journ. vol. xlv.

19

Observations in Clinical Surgery, pp. 148, 149.

20

Edin. Med. Journal, March 1879.

21

See case of recurrence, Fergusson's Practical Surgery 1st ed. p. 222.

22

Operative Surgery, p. 279.

23

Surgical Operations, p. 50.

24

For details see article "Amputation" in Cooper's Surgical Dictionary, and the short sketch of the history in Mr. Lister's paper in the third volume of Holmes's System of Surgery.

25

See a most interesting foot-note to Professor Lister's paper on "Amputation," in Holmes's System of Surgery, vol. iii. pp. 52, 53.

26

This line is placed too low down; it should be in the middle third of the thigh.

27

This line is placed too low down; it should be in the middle third of the thigh.

28

Manuel d'Opérations chirurgicales.

29

As the surgeon will find it most convenient to stand on his own right side of the limb to be removed, the knife will be entered on the palmar side of the radius of the right arm, of the ulna of the left.

30

Teale, On Amputation by Rectangular Flaps, pp. 46-48.

31

Johnson's folio ed., p. 342.

32

Gross's Surgery, 6th ed. vol. ii. p. 1103.

33

International Encyclopædia of Surgery, vol. i. p. 641.

34

Spence's Surgery, pp. 800, 801.

35

Gross's Surgery, 8vo., 6th ed., vol. ii., p. 1106.