. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens . e, and a narrow strip of the left maxilla,being quite separated from the healthy bone, were removed. The greatloss of substance on the right side of the face caused frightful December 23d, .1863, the patient was discharged from the service ofthe United States. A colored plaster cast of his face was prepared pre-vious to the patients discharge, and deposited in the Army MedicalMuseum. The patient w^as subsequently the subject of a very successfulplastic operation by Dr. Gurdon Buck, which is described by that eminentSurgeon in an illu
. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens . e, and a narrow strip of the left maxilla,being quite separated from the healthy bone, were removed. The greatloss of substance on the right side of the face caused frightful December 23d, .1863, the patient was discharged from the service ofthe United States. A colored plaster cast of his face was prepared pre-vious to the patients discharge, and deposited in the Army MedicalMuseum. The patient w^as subsequently the subject of a very successfulplastic operation by Dr. Gurdon Buck, which is described by that eminentSurgeon in an illustrated paper in the Transactions of the New York StateMedical Society, for 1864. The Specimen was contributed by AssistantSurgeon R. F. Weir, U. S. A. It is numbered 557 in tlie Surgical Sectionof the Museum. The history of the case was contributed by ActingAssistant Surgeon J. H. Bartholf, U. S. A. Photographed at the Army Medical Museum. BY ORDER OF THE SURGEON GENERAL: GEORGE A. OTIS, Bvt Lt. Col. and Asfit Surg. U. S. A,, Curator A. 3L
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