A dissertation on the inutility of the amputation of limbs

A dissertation on the inutility of the amputation of limbs is a medical paper by Johann Ulrich Bilguer. Excerpt: «My first thoughts on this subject arose from observing what passed under my own inspection in the military hospitals. In the first place I remarked, that in a very great number of cases, where amputation was judged necessary by the physicians and surgeons of the army, and even by the wounded themselves, in order to preserve life, it seldom or almost never answered the end.»