'Great Sciatic nerve' mb-code 1239281 5th October 1965

5th October 1965

with sailing boats and cargo vessels on the river

View showing the Adelphi Theatre in the background

In the foreground are long-horned cattle and sheep

In the foreground figures stand sheltering under umbrellas watching the event

'Great Sciatic nerve' mb-code 1239281 5th October 1965Medical study of a section of the amputated leg tissue of Elizabeth Powis, showing the human sciatic nerve. Plate 2 from the publication A memoir on amputation of the thigh at the hip joint, (with a successful case) by William Sands Cox FRS (London, 1845). Elizabeth Powis, a 23 year old (in 1845) seamstress, underwent surgery at the Queen's Hospital, Birmingham, England on 1 November 1842. The text accompanying this illustration notes that: 'On making