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• An atlas of amputations (Mosby Co., 1949), by D. B. Slocum (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Myoplastic amputation, immediate prosthesis and early amputation (U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health]; for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1971), by Marian Weiss, Ośrodek Lecznictwa Rehabilitacyjnego, and Warsaw. Akademia Medyczna. Katedra Rehabilitacji (page images at HathiTrust)
• A report on amputations at the hip-joint in military surgery (Government Printing Office, 1867), by United States. Surgeon-General's Office and George A. Otis (page images at HathiTrust)
• On amputation of the cervix uteri in certain forms of procidentia, and on complete eversion of the cervix uteri (Appleton, 1869), by Isaac E. Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Etude sur les hallucinations des moignons. (H. Jouve, 1898), by Auguste Arondel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hallucination du moignon : pathogénie et traitement (A. Michalon, 1902), by Carmik Gulbenkian (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Elementar-lehrbuch für einarmige (A. Hölder, 1917), by Josef von Sorg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Des amputations et des résections chez les phthisiques (J.-B. Baillière et fils, 1880), by Charles Leroux (page images at HathiTrust)
• De obliterende operationsmetoder anvendt til extremitetsamputationer; historisk studie ([s.n.], 1925), by Vilhelm Schaldemose (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les principes fondamentaux de la prothèse orthopédique du membre inférieur d'après l'étude des membres artificiels-types (Maloine, 1917), by Georges Hendrix (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Artificial limbs (University of London press, ltd., 1918), by Auguste Broca and Charles Ducroquet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Traité des résections et des opérations conservatrices : qu'on peut pratiquer sue le système osseux (G. Masson, 1885), by L. Ollier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Statistics of the amputations of large limbs that have been performed at the Massachusetts General Hospital, from its establishment to Jan. 1, 1850. (D. Clapp, Printer, 1850), by George Hayward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Amputationen an Professor Billroth's Klinik, 1877-1880; ein Beitrag zur Amputations-Technik und Wundbehandlung. (W. Braumüller, 1882), by Anton Wölfler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Amputations (David Clapp, 1861), by D. D. Slade (page images at HathiTrust)
• Précis du manuel opératoire (Masson, 1893), by Louis Herbert Farabeuf (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old arm good bye : a beautiful ballad for bass, baritone or contralto voice (Chicago : H. M. Higgins, [1866], 1866), by S. L. Coe (page images at HathiTrust)
• A suggestion for an improved technique of amputations in general. (E.T.H. Bunjo, 1941), by Eric Koster and Emil Theodore Hieronymus Bunje (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Artificial Limbs, by Auguste Broca and Charles Ducroquet, trans. by Reginald Cheyne Elmslie (Gutenberg ebook)

• Amputees, amputations and artificial limbs; an annotated bibliography, 1969-1970. (Washington, 1971), by National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Prosthetic-Orthotic Education (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Relationship between the amputation of an extremity and the subsequent development of cardiovascular disorders (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1977), by Richard Allen Ryder and United States House Committee on Veterans' Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Relationship between the amputation of an extremity and the subsequent development of cardiovascular disorders. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off. :, 1979), by Zdenek Hrubec, Richard Allen Ryder, and United States House Committee on Veterans' Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Causal relationship between service-connected amputation and subsequent cardiovascular disorder : a review of the literature and a statistical analysis of the relationship : studies submitted by the Veterans' Administration (pursuant to section 403 of Public Law 94-433) to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, United States Senate. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off. :, 1979), by Zdenek Hrubec, Richard Allen Ryder, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and United States. Veterans Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on amputations of the extremities and their complications. (Blakiston, 1885), by B. A. Watson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Summary of proceedings. (President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped, [for sale by the U. S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1977), by Cannes International Congress on Prosthetics Techniques and Functional Rehabilitation. 2nd (page images at HathiTrust)

• De l'amputation a lambeau, ou Nouvelle methode d'amputer les membres (chez Jean Neaulme, libraire, 1756), by Pieter Adriaanszoon Verduyn, Jean Neaulme, and Pierre Massuet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manuel pratique de l'amputation des membres (chez Mequignon l'aîné ..., 1784), by Edward Alanson, Méquignon, and Pierre Lassus (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dissertation on the inutility of the amputation of limbs, by Johann Ulrich Bilguer, trans. by S. A. D. Tissot (Gutenberg ebook)
• Currus triumphalis, è terebinthô, or, An account of the many admirable vertues of oleum terebinthinæ more particularly, of the good effects produced by its application to recent wounds, especially with respect to the hemorrhagies of the veins, and arteries, and the no less pernicious weepings of the nerves, and lymphaducts : wherein also, the common methods, and medicaments, used to restrain hemorrhagies, are examined, and divers of them censured : and lastly, a new way of amputation, and a speedier convenient method of curing stumps, than that commonly practised, is with divers other useful matters recommended to the military chirurgeon, in two letters : the one to his most honoured, James Pearse, Esq, chirurgeon to His Royal Highness the Duke of York, and chirurgeon general to His Majestie's Navy Royal : the other, to Mr. Thomas Hobbs, chirurgeon in London / by James Yonge. (London : Printed for J. Martyn ..., 1679), by James Yonge (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Quaestio medico-chirurgica quodlibetariis disputationibus manè discutienda, in Scholis Medicorum ... Anno Domini MDCCLXVI ... An in ipsâ pedis manû sue juncturâ, amputatio celebranda? (typis Quillau ..., 1766), by Henricus Raymond and François-Augustin Quillau (page images at HathiTrust)

• What to expect when you lose a limb : a guide for patients expecting or having recently had an amputation (Dept. of the Army], 1986), by Roberto H. Barja, Richard A. Sherman, and United States. Dept. of the Army (page images at HathiTrust)

• Traumatic arm amputation first aid simulation : a training activity. (Behavioral Research Aspects of Safety and Health (BRASH), Institute for Mining and Minerals Research (IMMR), University of Kentucky, 1988), by United States Bureau of Mines and University of Kentucky. Behavioral Research Aspects of Safety and Health Working Group (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gerty's triumph (London: Religious Tract Society, c1894), by M. B. Manwell (page images at Florida)

• Safeguarding equipment and protecting workers from amputations. (U.S. Dept. of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, 2003), by United States. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (page images at HathiTrust)

• Anaesthesia, hospitalism, hermaphroditism, and a proposal to stamp out small-pox and other contagious diseases. (D. Appleton and Company, 1872), by James Young Simpson and W. G. Simpson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Relationship between the amputation of an extremity and the subsequent development of cardiovascular disorders. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off. :, 1979), by Zdenek Hrubec, Richard Allen Ryder, and United States House Committee on Veterans' Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)

• Work-related hand injuries and upper extremity amputations. (U.S. Dept. of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics :, 1983), by United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (page images at HathiTrust)
• A case of amputation of the shoulder-joint (J.F. Trow, printer, 1853), by E. R. Peaslee (page images at HathiTrust)

• Physical Fitness: A Guide for Individuals with Lower Limb Loss (Baltimore: Dept. of Veterans Affairs, ca. 1991), by Ernest M. Burgess and Albert Rappoport
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• Prosthetic principles--above knee amputations (Thomas, 1960), by Miles H. Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Excision of the knee joint (s.n.], 1877), by George Edgeworth Fenwick and Canadian Medical Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Excision of the knee-joint with report of twenty-eight cases, illustrated by thirteen photo-lithographs and wood engravings (Dawson, 1884), by George Edgeworth Fenwick (page images at HathiTrust)

• Excision of the knee joint (s.n.], 1877), by George Edgeworth Fenwick and Canadian Medical Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Excision of the knee-joint with report of twenty-eight cases, illustrated by thirteen photo-lithographs and wood engravings (Dawson, 1884), by George Edgeworth Fenwick (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Lectures on orthopaedic surgery : delivered at the Brooklyn Medical and Surgical Institute (Wood, 1868), by Louis Bauer and William Wood & Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Operative orthopaedics : Editor: A. H. Crenshaw (Mosby, 1963), by Willis C. Campbell and A. H. Crenshaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide to hospital orthopaedic practice (F. A. Davis Co., 1963), by Peter Viek and Carole A. Mancuso (page images at HathiTrust)
• Orthopaedic surgery (E. & S. Livingstone, 1926), by William Alexander Cochrane (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Textbook of orthopedic surgery for students of medicine (Macmillan Co., 1925), by James Warren Sever (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deformities, a treatise on orthopaedic surgery : intended for practitioners and advanced students (Macmillan, 1896), by A. H. Tubby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contributions to orthopaedic surgery (Dornan, 1898), by Algernon Sydney Roberts and James K. Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indispensable orthopaedics, a handbook for practitioners. Tr. from the 6th French ed. (Mosby, 1915), by F. Calot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes on military orthopædics (Pub. for the British Red Cross Society by Cassell, 1917), by Robert Jones (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chirurgie orthopédique (G. Steinheil, 1904), by Paul Berger and S. Banzet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lectures on club-foot. (Putnam, 1880), by Joseph C. Hutchison and College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on orthopaedic surgery (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1881), by J. Warrington Haward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Atlas und Grundriss der orthopädischen Chirurgie für Studierende und Aerzte (J.F. Lehmann, 1901), by August Lüning and Wilhelm Schulthess (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Studies in orthopedic surgery (1916), by Arthur Steindler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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