Excerpt from The Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery, 1846, Vol. 6 On the morning of the 17th I amputated the arm by the circular Operation about two inches above the elbow joint. He recovered in a reasonable time without any unfavorable symptoms. The stump was a bad one in consequence of a redundancy of integuments. Case II. - A negro man, 30 years of age, has had a large ulcer of many years' standing, causing swelling of the foot and leg from a short distance below the knee to twice the natural size. It causes him much pain and constitutional disturbance, and seems incurable, as numerous and continued efforts have been made for that purpose. He was a patient Of Dr. Holt, at whose request, January 3oth, 1841, I amputated the leg a short distance below the knee, by a modification of the circular Operation, leaving the skin and mass Of muscles forming the calf of the leg consider ably longer than the integuments anteriorly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.