[AMP-L] The Oldest Amputated Leg

[Wayne Renardson]

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Today when we suffer an open fracture, one where the bone breaks 
through the skin, doctors can fix it and it is rarely necessary to 
amputate the leg or arm. But this is an achievement of 20th century 
medicine. Before, the only solution was to amputate. An 18th-century 
operating room, discovered in London in the attic of a church, was 
where harbor workers with open fractures were brought in. Today it is 
a museum (https://oldoperatingtheatre.com). The amputation was quick 
and without anesthesia, but the pain was unbearable.

Books of the time say that only 30% of amputees survived. Amputations 
have been done for millennia. The oldest was discovered in a 
7,000-year-old skeleton, missing a forearm, excavated in France. The 
novelty is the discovery of a skeleton in Borneo, Indonesia, which 
had a leg amputated 31,000 years ago.

The rest of the story, with photo of de bones, here:

https://tinyurl.com/2lcpdq76

Wayne R.