...Very little is to be gained by cutting off the limb at the hock, and the stifle is less accessible than the hip, and amputation of the stifle gives much poorer results... 
U.S. Department of Agriculture 「Special Report on Diseases of Cattle」
...Hence weunderstand that the amputation of the latter by the old naturaliststruncated only and did not destroy the imaginal limb...
Geo. H. Carpenter 「The Life-Story of Insects」
...Thompson, the assistant-surgeon, was fortunately able to reduce all these swellings by frequently bathing the parts in oil, and saved the man's life without having recourse to amputation...
David Collins 「An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 1」
...White clay ornaments their little limbs; and the females suffer the extraordinary amputation which they term mal-gun before they have quitted their seat on their mother's shoulders...
David Collins 「An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 1」
...The consequence was, such a violent fever and inflammation had taken place that any attempt to save life by amputation would only have hastened his end...
David Collins 「An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 1」
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