. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens . 62, a shell wound of the left knee-joint. He was taken prisoner, andwhile he was in the enemys lines it was decided that primary excisionof the knee-joint should be performed on the field. The operation wascommenced, but was interrupted by an advance of the Union troops, whoregained the ground they had lost earlier in the day. The parts werebrought in apposition, and the limb secured to a splint, and the patientwas sent to Fort Monroe, and admitted to Hygeia Hospital on June July 6th he was sent to Philadelphia on the steamer Daniel Webst
. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens . 62, a shell wound of the left knee-joint. He was taken prisoner, andwhile he was in the enemys lines it was decided that primary excisionof the knee-joint should be performed on the field. The operation wascommenced, but was interrupted by an advance of the Union troops, whoregained the ground they had lost earlier in the day. The parts werebrought in apposition, and the limb secured to a splint, and the patientwas sent to Fort Monroe, and admitted to Hygeia Hospital on June July 6th he was sent to Philadelphia on the steamer Daniel was admitted, on July 7th, to the Satterlee Hospital. The woundcicatrized, and left a comparatively useful limb. This soldier was dis-charged February 5, 1863, by Surgeon I. I. Hayes, U. S. V., forlameness resulting from a shell wound of the left knee. His namedoes not appear on the Pension List. Photographed at the Army Medical Museum. BY ORDER OF THE SURGEON GENERAL: GEORGE A. OTIS,Bvt Lt. Col. and Asst Surg. U. S. A., Curator A. M. Trepared under the supervision of /ASSISTANT BURGEON pEORGE A. OTIS, U. S. ORDER OF THE SURGEON GENERAL. BURGEON pENERALspFPICE, ^RMYyVlEDICALyVlUSEUM. ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM. PHOTOGRAPH No. 205. Double Amputation of the Forearms forInjury caused by the Premature Explosion of a Samuel H. Decker, Co. I, 4th U. S. Artillery, while ramminghis piece at the battle of Perryville, Kentucky, October 8, 1862, had halfof his rig-lit forearm, and somewhat less of the left, blown off by the pre-mature explosion of the gun. At the same time his face and chest werebadly burned. Five hours after the accident, both forearms were ampu-tated by the circular method, about the middle, by an Assistant Surgeonof the regular army whose name he cannot recall. He lay in the fieldhospital at Perryville until the wounds were partially cicatrized, when,on November 1st, he went to Louisville, Kentucky, and, on the 3d ofNovember, 1862, he was discharged
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