. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens . )porting treatment, the general condition improved. About the middle of July, it v«is first noticed that the patients legs,were edematous. General anasarca, ensued, and an examination of theurine that it was highly albuminous. The patient becamerapidly , and, on 12th, an uncontrollable diarrhiea set in,,accompanied by vomiting. The case terminated fatally, August 22d, 18G3. The characteristic lesions of Brights disease were revealed at tho-nutopsy. The spccinien v/as forwarded by Acting Assistant Hurgeon C. , U. S.
. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens . )porting treatment, the general condition improved. About the middle of July, it v«is first noticed that the patients legs,were edematous. General anasarca, ensued, and an examination of theurine that it was highly albuminous. The patient becamerapidly , and, on 12th, an uncontrollable diarrhiea set in,,accompanied by vomiting. The case terminated fatally, August 22d, 18G3. The characteristic lesions of Brights disease were revealed at tho-nutopsy. The spccinien v/as forwarded by Acting Assistant Hurgeon C. , U. S. A. Additional particulars of the case were contributed;hj Surgeon Lewis Taylor, U. 8. A. Photographed at the Army Medical Museum, \Y ORDER OF THE SURGEON GENERAL: OEORGE A. OTIS, <^urg. H. S. v., Curator A, M. J\l,_. iiiimi Witii^a^^ m. Trepared under the siijjcrvision of ;4SSISTANT ^URGEON pEORGE A, DtiS, USABY ORDER OF THE SURGEON GENERAL. ^ J ■ ilipiii Hieiiwl ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM. i PriOTOGRAPHlC Series No. 41. Recovery after Excision of the Head and Upper Portion of the Shaft of the Left Femur sliattered hy a Musket Ball. Lieut. Jarratt, Of the 15th North Carolina (Confederate) Kegiment,having a comminuted gunshot fracture of the upper extremity of the leftfemur, underwent, January 9th, 1864, an excision of the head, tro-chanters, and several inches of the shaft. The operation was performedat Richmond, Va., by Dr. Road, formerly of the Savannah Medical(ollege. The patient is said to have so far recovered at the expiration of sixwcclis from the date of the operation, as to be able to be removed to hishome in North Carolina. He was last heard from in September, 1864,wlien all sinuses had healed, and considerable weight could be borne bythe injured limb. These particulars and the photograph of
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