. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens . s numbered32->l of the Surgical Section. It displays a fracture caused by a musketball which, entering at the right fronto-parietal suture, and temporalridge, and fractured the os frontis in a long fissure, which runs in frontone inch above the orbits, and downwards through the greater wing ofsphenoid and squamous portion of the left temporal into the mastoidprocess. One fissure branches off above the left orbit and downwardsthrough the maxillary sinus. Another fissure passes posteriorly fromthe wound of entrance and upwards through the right
. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens . s numbered32->l of the Surgical Section. It displays a fracture caused by a musketball which, entering at the right fronto-parietal suture, and temporalridge, and fractured the os frontis in a long fissure, which runs in frontone inch above the orbits, and downwards through the greater wing ofsphenoid and squamous portion of the left temporal into the mastoidprocess. One fissure branches off above the left orbit and downwardsthrough the maxillary sinus. Another fissure passes posteriorly fromthe wound of entrance and upwards through the right to the left parietalprotuberance Another fissure downwards through the right auditorymeatus has divided the petrous bone. Yet another fissure passes back-wards through the upper portion of right temporal into the occiput. Theball passed out at the upper part of occipital near the inter-parietalsuture. Photographed at the Army Medical Museum. BY ORDER OF THE SURGEON GENERAL: GEORGE A. OTIS,Bvt Li. Col. and Ass t Surg. U. S. A., Curator A. M. Prepared under /he supervisio?i of Assistant Surgeon Peorge A. Otis U S. A BY ORDER OF THE .SII11GE0N GENERAL. (bURGEON PENERALspFPICE, ^RMY yVlEDICAL/WuSEUA ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM. Photograph No. 216. Gunshot Fracture of Skull. At a post mortem examination of the body of an unknown soldier, atLincoln Hospital, September 22, 1864, it was ascertained, that a conoidalmusket ball had entered about one and a half inches above the left ear,causing a compound comminuted fracture of the squamous portion of thetemporal bone. The ball was found imbedded in the lower portion of theparotid gland. The vessels of the meninges of the brain were very muchinjected. The middle lobe of the left hemisphere was softened to themiddle corner of the lateral ventricle, which contained a small quantityof fluid, resembling blood. The specimen was contributed to the ArmyMedical Museum by Acting Assistant Surgeon H. M. Dean, and isnumbered 8254 of the Surgical Section
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