Record

Reference NumberRBC/54
TitleLetter from [P E B ]
Date24 February 1855
Creator Name[B , P E]
Butcher, Richard George Herbert, 1819-1891
DescriptionManuscript letter to Richard Butcher requesting Butcher to 'desire your artist to make, for the Co. Down Infirmary, a Saw, such as you figure in the last quarterly journal'. The writer also states that he 'cannot understand why the statistics of capital amputation should be so frightful' as of his last 37 cases 'but two died'.
Extent2 pages
TermAmputation
Surgical Instruments
Amputation -- instrumentation
Letter
Fatal Outcome
Persons
CodePersonNameDates
DS/UK/2995Country Down Infirmary
DS/UK/1385Butcher; Richard George Herbert (1819-1891); surgeon1819-1891
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