Note 20 — A DISSERTATION ON THE Inutility of Amputation.

This practice has also been condemned by others. See the collection of pieces which put in for the prize conferred by the royal academy of surgery. T. 3. p. 490. It is there observed that every amputation performed immediately after the hurt, is generally dangerous in its consequences.

I know that a soldier, who had his arm cut off in the field of battle, after the affair of Prague, died the third or fourth day after the operation.