Letter from William Bousfield Page to Richard Butcher Manuscript letter from William Page to Richard Butcher informing Butcher that he has not recently carried out an excision of the knee joint. He provides details of a case of amputation of the thigh he carried out a year ago, the patient having previously had excision of the knee, from another surgeon, which never healed'. He also details a case of 'removal of the ends of the radius & ulna'. 2 October 1856