. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens . ket Ball. Lieut. Jarratt, Of the 15th North Carolina (Confederate) Kegiment,having a comminuted gunshot fracture of the upper extremity of the leftfemur, underwent, January 9th, 1864, an excision of the head, tro-chanters, and several inches of the shaft. The operation was performedat Richmond, Va., by Dr. Road, formerly of the Savannah Medical(ollege. The patient is said to have so far recovered at the expiration of sixwcclis from the date of the operation, as to be able to be removed to hishome in North Carolina. He was last heard from in Septe
. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens . ket Ball. Lieut. Jarratt, Of the 15th North Carolina (Confederate) Kegiment,having a comminuted gunshot fracture of the upper extremity of the leftfemur, underwent, January 9th, 1864, an excision of the head, tro-chanters, and several inches of the shaft. The operation was performedat Richmond, Va., by Dr. Road, formerly of the Savannah Medical(ollege. The patient is said to have so far recovered at the expiration of sixwcclis from the date of the operation, as to be able to be removed to hishome in North Carolina. He was last heard from in September, 1864,wlien all sinuses had healed, and considerable weight could be borne bythe injured limb. These particulars and the photograph of the. patient were communicatedby Assistant Surgeon E. W. Latimer, of the Confederate Army, tnActing Staff Surgeon W. H. Palmer, IT. S. A., by whom they wereforwarded to this Office. Photographed at the Army Medical Museum, ^Y ORDER OF THE SURGEON GENERAL: aKORGE A. OTIS, ■Surg. U. S. V., Curator A. M. iiiiiiii, Miliii^^si m. Trejmred nmUr t?ie stipervhioti of ;4ssiSTANT Burgeon Peorge A. Otis, U S. ABY ORDER OP THE SDRGEON GENERAL. ^ ^ PUROEO. ^.^^.^t^^;.^-T:;.USEUM. 0 ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM. i^rKCi^iEN No. li*!;). Sc(jurstnim from Rlglit Tlb! treated by free■a])plications of briimine, tonic, and stinuilating constitutional luiasuies•being adopted at the same time. % About May 1st, the tit)ia became denuded, and small exfoliations were,tioni tini(> to time thrown oft from it. By the middle of June, two-thirds■ot tlie crest of the tibia was exposed, and the gr(>ater portion of shaftof the hone wa-^ altected with necrosis. On .Inly :.!7th, the scfp
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