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  1. pdfLife and Limb Brochure 
    https://www.nlm.nih.gov/.../PR_Information_Resources/LL_Brochure.pdf
    ... of the operations performed during the war, were amputations. Although seemingly drastic, the operation was intended to ... a limb was widely feared by soldiers. LEFT: Amputation in front of a hospital tent, Gettysburg, July ...
  2. The Many Faces of Diabetes: Complications and Debility in Late 20th Century America – Circulating Now from the NLM ... 
    https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/...y-in-late-20th-century-america
    ... are worthy of more individual exploration by scholars. Amputations, chronic kidney failure, cardiovascular disease, retinopathy , and headaches ... My work has dealt quite a bit with amputations as an epidemic within an epidemic. Minority groups ...
  3. 2019New_Mesh_Tree_Hierarchy.txt 
    https://www.nlm.nih.gov/.../download/2019New_Mesh_Tree_Hierarchy.txt
    ... 500 Nipples A01.378 Extremities A01.378.100 Amputation Stumps A01.378.610 Lower Extremity A01.378. ... Splenosis C26.017.809 Stomach Rupture C26.062 Amputation, Traumatic C26.088 Arm Injuries C26.088.268 ...
  4. Surgeon-General's Office correspondence acknowledging receipt of circular nos. 1-7 
    https://findingaids.nlm.nih.gov/repositories/ammp/resources/sgo007 - 34K
    ... the Rebellion. - no. 7 (1867), A report on amputations at the hip-joint in military surgery. Correspondents ... the Rebellion. - no. 7 (1867), A report on amputations at the hip-joint in military surgery. Correspondents ...
  5. Percivall Pott: Orthopedics and Occupational Health – Circulating Now from the NLM Historical Collections 
    https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/...pedics-and-occupational-health
    ... fellow surgeons were called in to consult and amputation was thought the only way to save his ... His mentor Edward Nourse intervened and stopped the amputation, and Pott spent three months in bed while ...
  6. Past History Talks - National Library of Medicine 
    https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/lectures/history_talks.html
    ... the many complications of this chronic disease, including amputations, chronic kidney failure, disability, and the ramifications of ... Secondly, this talk highlights the dual epidemics of amputation and chronic kidney disease that reveal staggering inequalities ...
  7. pdfNational Library of Medicine - Programs and Services, Fiscal Year 2001 
    https://www.nlm.nih.gov/ocpl/anreports/fy2001.pdf
    ... and a stereoscope card documenting a Civil War amputation scene at a field hospital. William Helfand continued ...
  8. Medical Library Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - Shreveport 
    https://lib.sh.lsuhsc.edu/node/11
    ... of the collection include a Civil War-era amputation kit, vintage electrocardiographs, microscopes, and early electroconvulsive therapy ...
  9. pdf213-224-1987.pdf 
    https://www.nlm.nih.gov/.../nlmarchives/techbull/213-224-1987.pdf
    ... C20.683.515.761.355 •WOUNDS AND INJURIES Amputation, Traumatic Athletic Injuries Burns Dislocations Fractures. Spinal Cord ...
  10. Adolf Nichtenhauser History of Motion Pictures in Medicine Collection 
    https://findingaids.nlm.nih.gov/.../ammp/resources/nichtenhauser380 - 47K
    ... Macintyre) Fig. 50 - missing Fig. 51 - Doyen leg amputation Fig. 52 - operation of acute osteomyelitis Fig. 53 - ...
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