. The Photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . tering, and splitting of a long boneby the impact of the minie or Enfield ball were, in many in-stances, both remarkable and frightful, and early experiencetaught surgeons that amputation was the only means of sav-ing life. In the vicinity of a joint, the ends of the bone beingmore spongy, softer, and less brittle, the damage to the shaftof the bone was not so great, and the expedient of resection,largely resorted to and greatly developed by the surgeons, inmany insta
. The Photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . tering, and splitting of a long boneby the impact of the minie or Enfield ball were, in many in-stances, both remarkable and frightful, and early experiencetaught surgeons that amputation was the only means of sav-ing life. In the vicinity of a joint, the ends of the bone beingmore spongy, softer, and less brittle, the damage to the shaftof the bone was not so great, and the expedient of resection,largely resorted to and greatly developed by the surgeons, inmany instances afforded a comparatively, if not perfectly, re-stored limb. Resections of the upper extremity afforded betterresults than those of the lower, although fairly good resultswere sometimes obtained in the case of the latter. In some instances, I deemed it imperatively necessary toresort to a second, or even a third resection of the limb, evenalter the end of the bone had been sawn through, and whilethe patient was still under the influence of the anesthetic, theprimary section furnishing the information that the bone had.
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