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Twenty five seconds to amputate a leg with knives and handsaws. That is amazing.

• Someone 4y ago
  And reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Liston https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Liston, he didn’t even did battlefield surgery. I wonder how he got the experience. https://www.civilwarmed.org/surgeons-call/limbs/ https://www.civilwarmed.org/surgeons-call/limbs/: “Surgery was performed expeditiously and amputation was the usual operation when the extremity had been injured. An amputation took only a few minutes. When the surgery for one patient was completed, another patient was waiting for the operating table. The amputated limbs, at times, accumulated in piles near the operating table before they could be disposed of. This was a gruesome sight and caused comments by uninvolved observers. Such piles of limbs were known to have existed as early as 1811, described by a British officer at a British hospital in France during the Napoleonic wars, at a time when surgery was being done without anesthesia”