'Great Sciatic nerve' mb-code 1239281 View showing the Adelphi Theatre

View showing the Adelphi Theatre in the background

Tuesday 18th June 1963

The office of Messre Charles Greenwood and Co

In the foreground figures stand sheltering under umbrellas watching the event

with sailing boats and cargo vessels on the river

'Great Sciatic nerve' mb-code 1239281 View showing the Adelphi TheatreMedical 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