The steps ssary for exartieiilution can easily IK- taken, it' called for;.vhcn the bone is examined. Such a proceeding would certainly not be very " brilliant," but it illicit save a Alter the l.-t April, 1855, amputation in the upper third ot'the thiirh was performed 39 times, with a fatal uses. Of the total number only one was a secondary operation, and it ended fatally. The ratio mortality per cent was thus for primary, and for secondary. I have never myself seen any case recover in which the limb was amputated beyond doubt in ipper third, and I never met any one who had, except in one ii. and that man was seen in
I saw several upper third so-called, which were lly so. It is very easy to be deceived on point. The French and Russians found these operations so hopeless that they almost abandoned them;;ct, as was before remarked, the attempt to limbs, hopeless as it was, seemed more promising than amputation in thamc p. i times, 1prim -reondury of the prin 23 or 'id of the secondary, 10 or 71WAR.
IKT cent. A very great many of the operations classed as " lower third," ought to have been entered as "middle third," as it very frequently happened that, from the operator adhering too closely to the maxim of Petit, to " cut as little of the muscle and as much of the bone as possible," an operation which was ostensibly in the lower, was in reality in the middle third. This is a matter of which I have seen many illustrations; consequently, I believe that at least one-third of the operations and the deaths classed as lower third, should be transferred to the middle third column, and thus the relative frequency and fatality of the two operations would be better expressed.