1 Table of Contents: “... 4. The 17th and 18th Centuries: The Decline of Plastic Surgery in the Western World -- Chapter 5...”

2 “...The majority of amputations in the western world today are due to vascular disease. Despite...”

3 “... is increasing throughout the western world. However, to date no guidelines or standards have been published in a...”

4 “... for the Western world. His grandfather Karl Kaspar von Siebold was the first real university surgeon in Würzburg...”

5 “... and hospitalization in the western world. Interest in critical limb ischemia has increased markedly in recent years...”