. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens . tered the inner aspect ofthe left thigh, one inch above the patella, and, passing upwards and out-wards, made its exit ou the outer surface of thigh at the middle was carried nine miles in an ambulance to the general hospital atFredericksburg, and was, afterwards, admitted to the Armory SquareHospital at Washington on May 26, 1864. No apparatus had beenapplied to the limb. Shortly after admission chloroform was adminis-tered, but, after a consultation, it was decided that he could not bear am-putation. The injured limb was then placed in
. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens . tered the inner aspect ofthe left thigh, one inch above the patella, and, passing upwards and out-wards, made its exit ou the outer surface of thigh at the middle was carried nine miles in an ambulance to the general hospital atFredericksburg, and was, afterwards, admitted to the Armory SquareHospital at Washington on May 26, 1864. No apparatus had beenapplied to the limb. Shortly after admission chloroform was adminis-tered, but, after a consultation, it was decided that he could not bear am-putation. The injured limb was then placed in a fracture box, andstrong stimulants were given. The patient lingered until June 10, 1864,when he died from exhaustion. The pathological specimen, which issuperficially necrosed, was contributed, with history, to the Army Med-ical Museum by Surgeon D. W. Bliss, U. S. V., and is numbered 24S6,in the Surgical Section. Photographed at the Army Medical Museum. BY ORDER OF THE SURGEON GENERAL: GEORGE, A. OTIS, AssH Surg. U. S. A., Curator A. M. _m Mit@iii\\» m. ■■■■■■ Prepared u?ider t/ie supervision of Assistant £urgeon Peorge p-ns, p. j5. ft- BY ORDER OF THE SDROBON GENERAL. WAR , ^URGEON pENERALspFFICE, ^RMY MEDICAL ^MUSEUM- ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM. Photograph No. 233. Reproduction of the Metacarpals and Phalanges after Necrosis. The specimen is from the Gibson Collection, and is numbered 5251 ofthe Surgical Section, Army Medical Museum. Photographed at the Army Medical Museum. BY ORDER OF THE SURGEON GENERAL: GEORGE A. OTIS, Asst Surg. (J. S. A., Curator A. M M.
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