| Description | Manuscript letter from Henry Smith to Richard Butcher thanking Butcher for sending the copy of the paper on excision of the knee joint, which Smith intends to forward to a friend in Frankfurt. Smith expresses the hope that excision will replace, not only in England but also other countries 'the time honoured and barbarous method of amputating limb for [ ] of the knee joint. He then provides more details of the case mentioned in his previous letter (RBC/113) which has had, as he feared, a fatal outcome. |