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The Liston Amputation Knife, as shown on page 65/2, The Gigli Saw, as shown on page 65/1, is named for is a type of knife used in surgical amputation, the Leonardo Gigli, a nineteenth-century Italian physician intentional removal of a limb or body part. It is who used it while performing . It is a flexible performed to remove diseased tissue, malignant wire saw used by surgeons for bone cutting, mainly tumors, or as a result of severe trauma to a body part, during amputations where bones have to be cut such as an arm, leg, hand, foot, finger or toe. smoothly at the level of amputation. It consists of long thin tempered steel blades arranged in an oval The knife was named after Robert Liston, a Scottish shape, with finger rings at either end. Gigli saws were surgeon noted for his skill and speed. In an era prior to also known to be kept hidden in the clothing of British anesthetics, having these skills made a difference secret agents during World War II who used them as in terms of a patient’s pain and survival. He is said to an escape device when needed. have been able to perform removal of a limb in an amputation in 28 seconds. Born in in 1863, Dr. Gigli also received his degree in and surgery in Florence in 1889. Born in 1794 in Scotland, he attended medical school He worked in Florence as an assistant to the at Edinburgh University. He became a surgeon at the professor of clinical pediatric surgery, and then as an Royal Infirmary and a lecturer at the University in assistant in and gynecology under 1818. He earned a reputation not only in Scotland, Professor Domenico Chiara. After Professor Chiara’s but in Europe and America as a daring and successful death in 1891, Dr. Gigli left Italy and went to to surgeon. It is said that "the gleam of his knife was work under Étienne Stéphane Tarnier, an obstetrician. followed so instantaneously by the sounds of sawing He then went to London and Wroclaw, Poland, where as to make the two actions appear almost he worked under Professor Henry Fritsch from 1892 simultaneous". In 1835, he became professor of to 1893. While in Wroclaw he was able to attend clinical surgery at University College, London. In surgery with Jan Mikulicz-Radecki. During this 1846 he used an anesthetic in a public operation in successful and rewarding period, Dr. Gigli proposed London in 1846, the first time this had been done. He the lateralized pubiotomy (Gigli's operation) for safe passed away in 1847. delivery of a fetus in cases of maternal pelvic deformities. Inspired by the sight of a jagged knife, he conceived his wire saw to simplify the procedure. In 1894 he successfully tested a modified saw type with a whalebone guide for the preparation of osteoplastic cranial flaps.

He returned to Florence in 1894 to work at the Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova, and continued as a proponent of the lateral pubiotomy using the wire saw, although he did not receive the support of his colleagues in Italy. He described the use of his saw for cutting other bones, except the skull, in 1897. Professor Alfred Obalinski of Kraków also described its use for craniotomy during the same year. In 1899 Dr. Gigli became director of the Santa Maria Nuovo Hospital. He resigned in 1901 and worked in private practice until he passed away in 1908.

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