the mark of a good surgeon then was how fast they could lop off a limb. Amputation was advanced technology back then (around the early 1800s). Four people would hold the guy down...and...you get the idea (see 'Gone with the wind' and the 'no cut' scene). It was the 19th century that got surgeons into surgery, and out of carpentry.

They shouldn't be too hard to model...

I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit

anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)