. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens . idal musket ball, wliieli passed from tin innrr to tlu()uteraspeet of the right leg, and shattered the uppi-r thirds of the tibia andfibula. A staff surgeon extracted a number of detaebid fraguvnt- of bone, andthen sewed up the wounds by the gl()vcrs suture. On June l?d, the patient was removed to New Orleans; th^ sutm-eswere clipped, and coagula, [)us, and l:>one splinters in largequantities were evacuated. The constitutional symptoms were of themost aggravated chai-acter. About tbe middle of June, amputation was ])erformed at the
. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens . idal musket ball, wliieli passed from tin innrr to tlu()uteraspeet of the right leg, and shattered the uppi-r thirds of the tibia andfibula. A staff surgeon extracted a number of detaebid fraguvnt- of bone, andthen sewed up the wounds by the gl()vcrs suture. On June l?d, the patient was removed to New Orleans; th^ sutm-eswere clipped, and coagula, [)us, and l:>one splinters in largequantities were evacuated. The constitutional symptoms were of themost aggravated chai-acter. About tbe middle of June, amputation was ])erformed at the lowerthird of the thiirh bv Professor Warren Stone, with thP verv slightesthope of success. The patient, however, struggled through, and, ultimate-I3, Avore an artificial limb with comfort. The specimen and the ])articulars of the case were contiibiit:d by i*rof,F. Bacon, of Yale College, formerly Surgeon U. 8. Vols. Photographed at the Army filedicai fvduseum, BY ORDER OF THE SURGEON GENERAL: GEORGE xl. OTIS, Surg. U. S. V.,Ctcrator A. M. iiliiiill Piitiii^^si ii, Trepared nnder tfie siipervisio7i of ;iSSISTANT ^URGEON pEORGE ft. DtIS, USABY ORDER OP THE SURGEON GENERAL ^ ?=URGEON pENERALspppiCE,/,RMY;VlEDlCA*yWuSEUM. ■jwaBiawMBKPatwtfffiKJvjga ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM. PH0TO(iRAPIi;in SkUIES N(S. •VI. S/ir/l WoiiihI of the Face. Pvivatc William H. Niiiis, Co. i), 61st jSTew york Yols., was woundciiJune ITtli, 18()4, i\\ of Potersburg, Fa., aiitl \va^ adinittod into-(Jolunibian College Hospital,,afc Washington, Jane 22d, \W}i. He was stvaek bv a fragment of shell, which evacnated the humonrs ofthe right eye, and fractured the nasal bones and vight-.«iii)eri()r maxiila. The treatment consisted in the removal of fragments of bone, andadjustment of tbe lascerated soft parts. At tliis date, April 2)th, j8Go, there is ;i small fistula, with a necrosed fragmiMit of t!u spongy bones. Photographed at the Army iVIedica! Museum, B, Y. ORDEROFTHESU
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