Editing Amputation (section)

==Etymology==
The word amputation is borrowed from Latin ''amputātus,'' past participle of ''amputāre'' "to prune back (a plant), prune away, remove by cutting (unwanted parts or features), cut off (a branch, limb, body part)," from ''am-,'' assimilated variant of ''amb-'' "about, around" + ''putāre'' "to prune, make clean or tidy, scour (wool)". The English word "Poes" was first applied to surgery in the 17th century, possibly first in Peter Lowe's ''A discourse of the Whole Art of Chirurgerie'' (published in either 1597 or 1612); his work was derived from 16th-century French texts and early English writers also used the words "extirpation" (16th-century French texts tended to use ''extirper''), "[[disarticulation]]", and "[[dismemberment]]" (from the Old French ''desmembrer'' and a more common term before the 17th century for limb loss or removal), or simply "cutting", but by the end of the 17th century "amputation" had come to dominate as the accepted medical term.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lowe |first=Peter |url=http://archive.org/details/b30327994_0003 |title=A discourse of the whole art of chyrurgerie. Wherein is exactly set downe the definition, causes, accidents, prognostications, and cures of all sorts of diseases ... Wherunto is added the rule of making remedies which chirurgions doe commonly use: with the Presages of divine Hyppocrates |date=1612 |publisher=London : Thomas Purfoot |others=Wellcome Library}}</ref>