. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens . May 15thhe was admitted to the hospital of Whipples Division, Third Corps ; andon June 14th he was sent to the Second Division Hospital at Alexandria,where, on November 20, 1863, he was discharged on surgeons certificateof disability; afterwards, he was pensioned. A communication fromSurgeon Isaac F. Galloupe, U. S. V., dated September 22, 1869, states,that the patient received no appropriate treatment until he arrived atAlexandria, where Smiths Anterior Splint was applied, and the limb keptsuspended nearly four months. The upper posterior cicatr


. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens . May 15thhe was admitted to the hospital of Whipples Division, Third Corps ; andon June 14th he was sent to the Second Division Hospital at Alexandria,where, on November 20, 1863, he was discharged on surgeons certificateof disability; afterwards, he was pensioned. A communication fromSurgeon Isaac F. Galloupe, U. S. V., dated September 22, 1869, states,that the patient received no appropriate treatment until he arrived atAlexandria, where Smiths Anterior Splint was applied, and the limb keptsuspended nearly four months. The upper posterior cicatrix, as shownin the photograph, represents the wound of entrance; the one below it,the location of the last fistulous opening which closed in November, 1868,after discharging, from time to time, fragments of necrosed bone. Theouter scar, in front, indicates the wound of exit; the remaining two, theresult of abscesses. Photographed at the Army Medical Museum. BY ORDER OF THE SURGEON GENERAL: GEORGE A. OTIS, Asst Surg. U. S. A„ Curator A. M 1111M1 MitiiilM it, Prepared under tfie supervision of ^Assistant j5urgeon Peorge jk. pris, ]J. f>. f<-BY ORDER OP THE SURGEON GENERAL. WAR DiEJ^ ^URGEON pENERALs pFFICE, ARMY /VIeDICAL MUSEUM- ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM. Photograph No. 247. Successful Secondary Amputation atthe Hip-Joint, following an Excision of the Head of the Femurfor Gunshot Injury. Private John Schranz, 7th Austrian Feldjiigers, was wounded at thebattle of Palestro, May 30, 1859, by a ball which fractured the trochanterof the left femur, the splintering involving the joint, either directly or byexciting traumatic arthritis. The formation of abscesses in the thighrendered some operative interference necessary, and on November 27,1859, Dr. Neudorfer, chief surgeon of the Eighth Austrian Army Corps,excised the head, neck, and trochanters of the bone. The operation didnot result favorably, and four days subsequently Dr. Neudorfer removedthe entire limb by th


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