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PHANTOM LIMB CURE FRAMED CURIO
Amputations during the Civil War accounted for 75% of all operations. More arms and legs were
chopped off in this war than in any other fought by this country. Three out of every four men
wounded were hit in the extremities. At the time, amputation was the only proper medical treatment
for a compound fracture or severe laceration of a limb.
In the leg, the common practice for amputation is to make the incision through the integuments
sufficiently low, to enable the operator to saw the bones, about four inches below the lower
part of the patella.
The tourniquet should be applied to the femoral artery, two-thirds of the way down the thigh,
just before the vessel perforates the tendon of the triceps muscle. The leg being properly held,
the surgeon, with one quick stroke of the knife, divides the skin completely round the limb.
Some recommend the operator to stand on the inside of the leg, in order that he may be able to
saw the bones at once.
Having made a circular division of the integuments, the next object is, to preserve skin enough
to cover the front of the tibia, including those covering the latter bone. Throughout this extent,
the operator must here have sufficient skin, by dissecting it up, and turning it backwards.
On the posterior part of the leg, the skin should never be detached from the large gastrocnemius
muscle, as once divided will form a sufficient mass for covering the stump. Once skin has been separated in front, the surgeon is to place the edge of the knife in the incision and cut through the muscles of the calf, from the inside of the tibia, quite to the fibula.
Then the flap, formed by the calf of the leg, is to be held back by the assistant, while the surgeon completes the division of the rest of the muscles with a long, very narrow, double-edged knife. In the leg, only three principal arteries require ligatures; the anterior and posterior tibial, and the peroneal, arteries. When the wound is to be dressed, the soft parts, preserved for covering the bones, should be brought together.
The term phantom limb pain was apparently introduced by S. Weir Mitchell during the American Civil War.
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This beautiful framed curio is 12 and 1/2 inches wide by 16 and 1/2 inches tall. The image area
is 9 and 1/2 inches wide by 13 and 1/2 inches tall. The placard is all hand-illustrated using
pen-and-ink on hundred-year-old paper which reads:
A Cure For
Phantom Limb
And directly beneath the human toe bone in ancient typewriter on hundred-year-old paper it reads:
THE PHENOMENON KNOWN AS "PHANTOM LIMB" - the perception
of feeling a limb which has since benn removed - THIS
USUALLY BEGINS SOON AFTER AMPUTATION. IT IS A FEELING
THAT KEEPS THE BRAIN EVER MINDFUL OF THE MISSING LIMB
PRESERVING A CONSCIOUSNESS OF POSSESSING THAT WHICH IS
NO LONGER THERE.
A CURE USED DURING THE 1860s WITH GOOD RESULTS, WAS
WHEN THE LIMB WAS AMPUTATED, THE SURGEON WOULD GIVE A
TOE OR FINGER BONE THAT BELONGED TO THE NEW AMPUTEE,
WHICH WAS TO BE WORN ON THE SAME SIDE WHICH THE LIMB HAD
ONCE RESIDED
THIS CURE WOULD IN EFFECT KEEP AWAY THOSE SYMPATHETIC
PAINS THAT RUN FROM THE DECAYING MEMBER TO THE ORIGINAL
BODY AND FRESH STUMP.
The human foot bone (a metatarsal toe bone) is mounted on vintage green velvet with black
ribbon sewn onto it in an ornamental fashion. It is framed in a beautiful vintage wooden
frame that has some distressed areas in the upper right corner which does not affect the
sturdiness of the frame. It is signed and dated on the back and is ready to hang in your
own personal dime museum or sideshow.
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