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  • THE method of controlling hemorrhage in so formidable an operation as removal of the lower extremity by amputation and disarticulation at the coxo-femoral joint was devised by me, and first performed successfully upon a living subject at the New

    With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon John Allan 1914

  • Crepitation may in some cases be discerned by rectal examination, with one hand resting over the coxo-femoral (hip) articulation.

    Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877

  • Festinate lente is the cardinal principle in regard to resections at the coxo-femoral articulation.

    An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital. 1863

  • Anda coxo, a ver los burros, sus hermanos - Hallo, game-leg, go and see your brothers, the donkeys; "and at last, words not being found heavy enough, pieces of adobe rattled at my ears.

    Wild Life in the Rocky Mountains 1916

  • Professor John Ashurst in his great work on surgery wrote as late as 1881: "The removal of the lower limb at the coxo-femoral articulation may be properly regarded as the gravest operation that the surgeon is ever called upon to perform, and it is only within a comparatively recent period that it has been accepted as

    With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon John Allan 1914

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