. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens . rmittent fever,which, continuing five days, was checked by quinine. On April 1st, thefemur had united, but sinuses extended to the necrosed bone which thepatient at first refused to have removed; however, becoming muchemaciated and daily loosing strength, he consented to the operation, and,on June 21th, Surgeon D. W. Bliss, U. S. V., removed portions of necrosedbone and fragments of lead. He suffered greatly from the effects of the-operation for three days subsequently, when healthy granulations the meantime, he was treated expectantl
. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens . rmittent fever,which, continuing five days, was checked by quinine. On April 1st, thefemur had united, but sinuses extended to the necrosed bone which thepatient at first refused to have removed; however, becoming muchemaciated and daily loosing strength, he consented to the operation, and,on June 21th, Surgeon D. W. Bliss, U. S. V., removed portions of necrosedbone and fragments of lead. He suffered greatly from the effects of the-operation for three days subsequently, when healthy granulations the meantime, he was treated expectantly. On July 10th, an uncon-trollable diarrhoea set in, and he died from exhaustion on July 31, pathological specimen, showing a certain degree of union by folia-ceous callus, was contributed, with the history, to the Army MedicalMuseum by Acting Assistant Surgeon C. B. Porter, and is No. 4382,Surgical Section. Photographed at the Army Medical Museum. BY ORDER OF THE SURGEON GENERAL: GEORGE A. OTIS, AssL Surg. U. S. A., Curator A. M. lining mmmmmi it. Prepared under t?ie supervisor of Assistant jSurgeon Peorge ft. pns, }J. £. ,ABY ORDER OF THE SURGEON GENERAL WAR VkE^^TBe^, ^URGEON pENERALspPFICE, y^RMY MEDICAL ^MUSEUM. ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM. PHOTOGRAPH No. 243. Sequestra removed from Femurs afterAmputation. Private William B. Biddle, Co. K, 138th Pennsylvania Volunteers, aged twenty-seven years,was wounded at Cedar Creek, Virginia, October 19, 1801, by a conoidal musket ball, whichstruck the external condyle of the left femur and penetrated the knee joint. On the sameday, he was admitted to field hospital; his wound was dressed; and, on the 21th, he wastransferred to Baltimore, and admitted to the Jarvis Hospital, where Acting Assistant Sur-geon B. B. Miles administered ether, and amputated the thigh, at the lower third, by thecircular operation. On February 22,1S65, a sequestrum, about four inches long, was removed,and was contributed, by the operator, to th
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