. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens . --, 28th Pennsylvania Volunteers, waswounded September 16tb, 1862, at tlie battle of South Mountain, by around musket ball, which entered near the puter hamstring, and lodgedbetween the condyles of the right femur. He was conveyed to Wash-ington, D. C, and admitted into Mount Pleasant U. S. A. GeneralHospital, September 22d, 1832. On September oOth, his right thigh was;amputated, by flap incisions. At this date the li;nb was excessivelyswollen; the discharge of pus was profuse ; abscesses had burrowed intho soft parts, and irritative fever existe
. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens . --, 28th Pennsylvania Volunteers, waswounded September 16tb, 1862, at tlie battle of South Mountain, by around musket ball, which entered near the puter hamstring, and lodgedbetween the condyles of the right femur. He was conveyed to Wash-ington, D. C, and admitted into Mount Pleasant U. S. A. GeneralHospital, September 22d, 1832. On September oOth, his right thigh was;amputated, by flap incisions. At this date the li;nb was excessivelyswollen; the discharge of pus was profuse ; abscesses had burrowed intho soft parts, and irritative fever existed to an alarming degree. The■ease terminated fatally on October 2d, 1862. The ball, which remained imbedded in the cancellated .structure of thefemur, between the condyles, had caused a very oblique fracture into , separating the external condyle from the shaft, and breaking<oS a fragment from the anterior surface of the inner condyle. Photographed at the Army Medicai Museum. aP^ORGE A. OTIS, Surg. IT. S. V., Curator J. M. M. iiMiii ^siitiii^^i ii, Prepared ?(>ider tJie supervision of ;4SS1STANT ^URGEON pEORGE A. DtIS, U. S, ORDER OF THE SURGEON GENERAL. — ^-«-« ^URGEON pENERALspPFICE, ^RMyyVlEDICal,y«USEUM. ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM. .Specimen No. 1206 Gumhot Fracture of the head of the ngJtfHumerus. A (Jonoidal Ball hnbeddcd. iSecondd>y George Hetz, Company A, 76tli Ohio Vols, wt s woundedif ay 2d, 1868^ at Chancellorvni), and on May 25th, 1863, was admittedinto the 1st Bivision, U. S. A. General Hospital, at Alexandria, May 27th, Surgeon Charles Page, U. S. A., explored the wound, andfinding a fracture of the head of the right humerus, limited to theepiphysis, he performed excision. Much inflammatory actioil ensuedvwhich was treated by irrigation. On June 4th the patient had a chiil;an ahscess pointed near the insertion of the deltoid, and was opened. On-*June 7th, 18G3, the case terminated fatally. The specimen exhibi
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