![]() ![]() When French soldiers returned from battle with shattered limbs on which wounded tissue had already died, Paré warned fellow surgeons not to take a patient’s word for it in deciding where to amputate: “For I know very many deceived as thus: the patients pricked on that part would say, they felt much paine there.” Taking the report of pain as a sign that the tissue was still viable, a well-meaning surgeon might spare it and amputate farther down the limb, leaving a necrotic zone behind that would soon result in sepsis and death. ![]() For the sixteenth-century barber-surgeon Ambroise Paré, pain was a deadly liar. ![]()
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