18th century amputations: two case reports

Ramanathan Natarajan; Fred O'Dell; Madeleine Mant; Andrew Williams

doi:10.1136/archdischild-2024-327819

18th century amputations: two case reports

Ramanathan Natarajan, Fred O'Dell^*, Madeleine Mant, Andrew Williams

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Hospitalised children predate 19th-century specialist children’s hospitals. Before Lister and anaesthesia, surgery was generally of short duration. In the 18th century, paediatric surgery was extremely limited. It was 1860 before the first English textbook on paediatric surgery was published. This short paper relates two cases of paediatric orthopaedic surgery undertaken at the Northampton Infirmary in the 18th century.

Original language	English
Number of pages	5
Journal	Archive of Disease in Childhood
Early online date	4 Feb 2025
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2024-327819
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 4 Feb 2025

Keywords

NIECCAD
18th century
Northampton infirmary
amputation
paediatric surgery

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