Ancient Egyptian surgeons stitched wounds, set broken bones, and amputated diseased limbs, but they recognized that some injuries were so serious that they could only make the patient comfortable until he died.

In 1842 a surgeon in Nottingham painlessly amputated the leg of a patient using mesmerism; but the hostility of the medical profession and the growing availability of drugs prevented wider employment of this practice.

Mr. Mathieu was at the hospital on Tuesday when surgeons amputated part of the right leg of his friend, his friend who rushed for nearly 1,000 yards one year in high school.

Despite his mother's attempts to clean and bandage the wounds, surgeons in Tallinn later amputated the whole hand.

In their continuing struggle to save the life of Officer Eric Hernandez, who was shot by a fellow officer outside a White Castle on Saturday, surgeons amputated part of his right leg yesterday.

Another surgeon later amputated Ms. Shuler's right lower leg, which was the treatment Dr. Sanchez had initially recommended.

A surgeon does not amputate a gangrenous leg because he wishes the patient any harm.

Then surgeons amputated on the spot; the ambulance took him away and the block was removed.

In one night, he and another surgeon amputated twenty-three limbs, plastered fifteen fractures, and repaired numerous other wounds: ten abdominal, ten chest, and two cranial.

Bagnall was amazed the surgeons hadn't simply amputated it; he couldn't imagine the ruined member ever giving the partisan brigadier as much use as he could have got from a hook.