. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens . d fracture atupper third of left humerus. Seven hours after the reception of theinjury, while on the field, Surgeon Sylvester H. Sawyers, 36th Iowa Vol-unteers, excised the upper third of the shaft, removing four and a halfinches together with the head of the humerus, through a linear incisionbetween the biceps and deltoid muscles. The wound healed well, withflexion of fore-arm impaired by contraction of the injured triceps wound through the scapula was yet open, and the arm useless for laborwhen the man was discharged the service. H
. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens . d fracture atupper third of left humerus. Seven hours after the reception of theinjury, while on the field, Surgeon Sylvester H. Sawyers, 36th Iowa Vol-unteers, excised the upper third of the shaft, removing four and a halfinches together with the head of the humerus, through a linear incisionbetween the biceps and deltoid muscles. The wound healed well, withflexion of fore-arm impaired by contraction of the injured triceps wound through the scapula was yet open, and the arm useless for laborwhen the man was discharged the service. His arm was shortened oneand a half inches, but was nearly normal in size. He was dischargedfrom service March 12, 1865, while at Chattanooga, Tennessee. Anapparatus was furnished him by Dr. E. D. Hudson three years and elevenmonths after the excision, which greatly improved the power of movingthe limb. Photographed at the Army Medical Museum. BY ORDER OF THE SURGEON GENERAL: GEORGE A. OTIS,BvH Lt. Col. and Asst Surg. U. S. A,, Curator A. M- liiMt! «?§imm Bit. Trepared under Hie supervision of Assistant Surgeon Peorge A. Otis, U. S. ft. BV ORDER OP THE SURGEON GENERAL. WAR , Surgeon Penerals Pffice, /rmy/Iedical/Wuseua ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM. —>o *■ o— PHOTOGRAPH No. 202. Excision of the Head of Left Humerus for Gunshot Injury. Henry D. Fulton, private Co. E, 30th Indiana Volunteers, was woundedat the battle of Chickamauga, Georgia, September 19, 1863, by acanister shot. The missile entered at the surgical neck of the lefthumerus, passed upward and backward, commin ited the head of thehumerus, and made its exit beneath the base of the acromion. Thepatient was sent to the Cumberland hospital at Nashville, exfoliation followed, and abscesses burrowed beneath the clavi-cle and scapula. On November 1, 1863, Assistant Surgeon C. F. Haynes,U. S. V., excised the head of the left humerus, the outer portion of theacromion process, and a p
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