. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens . fterward. Two pieces of bulletwere extracted, and cold water dressings applied. On May 26, 1864, hewas sent to Chester Hospital, Pennsylvania, and on March 7, 1865, wastransferred to the Satterlee Hospital at Philadelphia. He was dischargedthe service March 29, 1865, by expiration of enlistment, and August 29, 1866, Pension Examiner J. Cummiskey reported the in-jured limb shortened some three inches, and completely anchylosed at theknee joint. Exfoliation was still going on and the patient suffered muchpain, and was obliged to use a
. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens . fterward. Two pieces of bulletwere extracted, and cold water dressings applied. On May 26, 1864, hewas sent to Chester Hospital, Pennsylvania, and on March 7, 1865, wastransferred to the Satterlee Hospital at Philadelphia. He was dischargedthe service March 29, 1865, by expiration of enlistment, and August 29, 1866, Pension Examiner J. Cummiskey reported the in-jured limb shortened some three inches, and completely anchylosed at theknee joint. Exfoliation was still going on and the patient suffered muchpain, and was obliged to use a crutch, the limb being entirely August 20, 1869, at the time the photograph was taken, he had goodU9e of the limb; but it felt weaker than the other, and was apt to swellif he walked much. He then walked without a cane, and was an inmateof the National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers at Augusta,Maine. Photographed at the Army Medical Museum. BY ORDER OF THE SURGEON GENERAL: GEORGE A. OTIS, Asst Surg. U. 8. A,, Curator A. M niM^A iwtiiiiM m* Trepared under the supervision of Assistant JSurgeon Peorge ft. Otis, p. g. ftBr ORDER OF THE SURGEON GENERAL. guRGEON QeneRals PffICE, ^RM Y ^/MEDICAL. yVluSEUK ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM. Photograph No. 236. Partial Recovery after Compound Com-minuted Fracture of the Femur by a Connoidal Bullet Private Michael Murtha, Co. H, 159th New York Volunteers, agedeighteen years, was wounded on April 14, 18G3, in an engagement at IrishBend, Louisiana, by a conoidal musket ball, which entered the right thighanteriorly in its upper third, and escaping at a point nearly opposite,lodged in the pants. On the 17th, he was admitted to the Marine Hospitalat New Orleans, where the limb was treated by sand bags, and by manualextension once daily. It united in bad shape, and another Surgeon com-ing in charge, it was rcbroken, and Boyers splint was applied. He wasable to bear his weight on it about, eight months afterward. On March9, 18G4, he wa
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