The step-by-step amputation of a gangrenous leg is the highlight of one episode. Saws, Catlin knives, tourniquets, tenacula, Nelaton probes and other instruments of the period are utilized.

Surgical instruments manufactured during the preseptic ... by the Parisian maker Charriere intended for amputation of the cervix. Over the course of the second half of the nineteenth century ...

Scholars often depict the American Civil War as an early watershed. Amputations were the most common operation of the war, ...