"In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also……" — Sam Kean
"In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War (1853-1856), watched one particularly inept surgeon cut both himself and, somehow, a bystander while blundering about during an amputation. Both men contracted an infection and died, as did the patient. Nightingale commented that it was the only surgery she'd ever seen with 300 percent mortality."
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More Amputation Quotes
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A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
— Margaret Atwood
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I am happy to be able to be part of this Rock'n'Blues Fest as the first tour since the amputation…
— Unknown Author
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The night before my amputation, my former basketball coach brought me a magazine with an article on an amputee who…
— Terry Fox
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When Christians are caught in sin, they do not need isolation or amputation; they need restoration. The proper thing to…
— Philip Graham Ryken
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It is not simply what one remembers, but why. There are sites of amputation where the past is severed from…
— Camilla Gibb
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The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out…
— Edward Gorey
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All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.
— Marge Piercy
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The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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...for most people in the [Jewish] Ghetto [of Warsaw] nature lived only in memory -- no parks, birds, or greenery…
— Diane Ackerman
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Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Calf love doesn't usually survive amputation, Your Majesty.
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