. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens . igamentous union appeared quite subsequently went to the West Indies. At Nassau, Dr. Hunt, of New Orleans, removedthe starch bandage and found the consolidation was very firm. In a few months CaptainKnowlton laid aside his crutcbes, and walked very satisfactorily. He returned to Louisianain I860. He was able not only to walk almost as well as ever, and to dance even the rounddances. His address as a purser on one of the Pacific mail steamers having been discovered,Surgeon Charles McCormick, U. S. Army, at San Francisco, examined his limb,
. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens . igamentous union appeared quite subsequently went to the West Indies. At Nassau, Dr. Hunt, of New Orleans, removedthe starch bandage and found the consolidation was very firm. In a few months CaptainKnowlton laid aside his crutcbes, and walked very satisfactorily. He returned to Louisianain I860. He was able not only to walk almost as well as ever, and to dance even the rounddances. His address as a purser on one of the Pacific mail steamers having been discovered,Surgeon Charles McCormick, U. S. Army, at San Francisco, examined his limb, December 17,1868, and had made the negative from which this photograph is printed. There was noevidence of disease about the cicatrix; The muscular development of the limb was good;and the inability to flex it at the knee was the only inconvenience suffered, a result as grati-fying as it is unusual. Photographed at the Army Medical IVSuseum. BY ORDER OF THE SURGEON GENERAL: GEORGE A. OTIS,BvH Lt. Col. and Asst Surg. U. S. A., Curator A. M. tiiioitii wit iiMM m* Trcpared under the supervision of Assistant Surgeon Peorge A. Otis U S. A BY ORDER OF THE SURGEON pENERALS OFFICE, Army/WeDICAL/WuSEUM. ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM. Peiotograph No. 218. Perforation of Stomach by a ConoidalMusket Ball. Private John Brown, Co. I, 9th Minnesota Volunteers, aged twenty-eight years, was wounded in front of Nashville, Tennessee, December 16,1864, by a conoidal musket ball, which penetrated the left chest at thecartilaginous junction of the eighth and ninth ribs, three inches belowthe nipple. On the night of the same day he was admitted to HospitalNo. 8, Nashville. The shock of injury was very great, and he sutferedintensely from sharp pain in the chest and abdomen. There was, also,paralysis of motion and of sensation in the left lower extremity. Ex-pectant treatment was used, but the patient soon collapsed, and died , P. M., on December 17, 1864. At an autopsy, twenty-two ho
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