. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens . ass. The left tliigh was ver^^ much swollen. On December 7, thepatient became delirious. The soft parts of the left (high were in a gan-grenous condition. Pie died on December 13, 1863. He had bloodyexpectoration and other symptoms of pleuro-pnemonia at the last. Atthe autopsy, the periosteum was found separated from a large part of theshaft of the femur; there Avere large abscesses in the thigh, and the softtissues were greatly disorganized nearly to the hip; there was a largeamount of sero-purulent offensive fluid in the right pleural cavity. T
. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens . ass. The left tliigh was ver^^ much swollen. On December 7, thepatient became delirious. The soft parts of the left (high were in a gan-grenous condition. Pie died on December 13, 1863. He had bloodyexpectoration and other symptoms of pleuro-pnemonia at the last. Atthe autopsy, the periosteum was found separated from a large part of theshaft of the femur; there Avere large abscesses in the thigh, and the softtissues were greatly disorganized nearly to the hip; there was a largeamount of sero-purulent offensive fluid in the right pleural cavity. Thespecimen of the fractured femur is No. 1907 of the Surgical Section ofthe Army Medical Museum, and is a good example of a comminution ofthe shaft of a long bone by a ball moving at a low rate of velocity. Theball must have struck with its long diameter parallel to that of the shaftpf the fem\ir. Photographed at the Army Medical Museum. BY ORDER OF THE SURGEON GENERAL: GEORGE A. OTIS, Bvt Lt. Col. and AsitSurg. U. S. A., Curator A. M. M. I ri. I ^Hla ■ Trepared under the supervision o/ _/4sSISTANT ^UKGEON pEORGE f>!.. pTIS, p. ^. ft-BY ORDER OF THE SURGEON GENERAL. •WAR X3iE::F^A.».xsa:Kiffi^x. ^UBGEON pENERALspFFlCE, ^RMY MEDICAL ^VlUSEUM.
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