. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens . roken fragments piercing the brain, and were carefullyremoved. About a teaspoonful of brain matter escaped. There was nocerebral disturbance, and the patient was perfectly conscious. On Sep-tember 8th, hernia cerebri appeared, the protrusion being about the sizeof a walnut. On the 19ih the edges of the wound were healthy; thehernia had receded, but diarrhoea supervened, which greatly reduced thepatients strength. He died on the 25th of September. The post-mortemexamination revealed a more extended fracture than was supposed toexist, reaching thro
. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens . roken fragments piercing the brain, and were carefullyremoved. About a teaspoonful of brain matter escaped. There was nocerebral disturbance, and the patient was perfectly conscious. On Sep-tember 8th, hernia cerebri appeared, the protrusion being about the sizeof a walnut. On the 19ih the edges of the wound were healthy; thehernia had receded, but diarrhoea supervened, which greatly reduced thepatients strength. He died on the 25th of September. The post-mortemexamination revealed a more extended fracture than was supposed toexist, reaching through the parietal to within two inches of the occipitalbone. The orbital place of the right superior maxillary was fracturedand depressed, and a fissure an inch long ran down the body of the specimen was contributed by Surgeon W. Clendenin, U. S. V., and isnumbered 276 of the Surgical Section. 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 ofAssistant Surgeon Peorge A. Otis USA BY ORDER OF THE SURGEON ««.»., K >F THE SURGEON GENERAL. <;„Br-„ WAR nEP-AKtXJWEEISi^, ^URGEON pENERALsppFICE, ARMY ^MeDICAL yVlUSEUM. mpm & ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM. Photograph No. 213. Gunshot pemtratiny Fracture of theFrontal Bone. Thomas Brennen, Private, Co. I, 65th New York volunteers, agedthirty years, was struck at the battle of Cedar Creek, on October 19,1864, by a musket ball, about the middle of the frontal bone He wastaken to Baltimore and admitted into the Jarvis U. S. A. General Hospitalon the 24th, and died on the following day. For two days previous to hisdeath, he had hemiplegia of the left side. At the autopsy twenty-fourhours after death, the frontal bone was found to have been perforatednear the right prominence. Two pieces of bone, each the size of a dimewere driven into the dura-mater for the distance of half an inch. Thebrain substance ne
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