[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] Manuel d'Opérations chirurgicales.
[27] Fig. iv. shows dorsal view of incision. Fig. iii. showsface of completed stump; R, radial; U, ulnar.
[28] 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.
[29] Teale, On Amputation by Rectangular Flaps, pp. 46-48.
[30] Johnson's folio ed., p. 342.
[31] Gross's Surgery, 6th ed. vol. ii. p. 1103.