amputation of the limb

That in the days before penicillin, the usual the only - cure for an infected extremity was an amputation of the limb.

Falling into an operating fireplace, he suffered a burn on one leg so severe as to necessitate the amputation of the limb.

As opposed to surgical amputation of the limbs, dismemberment is often fatal to all but the simplest of creatures.

When relief convoys reached Srebrenica for the first time in November, United Nations officials were shocked by conditions, which included amputations of the limbs of wounded civilians without anesthetics.

On November 29 Fiser was hit in his right arm as he reached the top of the Union defensive position during the Battle of Fort Sanders, a wound requiring the amputation of the limb.

Using each type of source to check and amplify the other, Ball revises accepted family wisdom: when his white relatives assure him that his ancestors were the kindest of masters, he points to manuscript evidence of whippings, sales, even amputations of the limbs of rebellious slaves.

He discovered the Paget's disease of the breast and the Paget's disease of the bones (osteitis deformans), which are named after him; he was the first to urge removal of the tumour, instead of amputation of the limb, in cases of myeloid sarcoma.