Quick amputation of the finger is the best remedy of all if a large snake has bitten it.
They often occur after an injury to the site of the amputation.
In the case of women the mutilation usually takes the form of amputation of the breasts.
Moreover, injury to the scolex, or amputation of that organ, reveals the concomitant absence of a regulative mechanism such as that which generally controls the form and fitness of regenerated organs.
A man 's tongue was cut off in September under a new decree making slander of President Saddam an amputation crime.
