. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens . ummits, wereevidently of great antiquity, about forty human skeletons, more or lesscomplete, which he sent to the Army Medical Museum. They furnishseveral examples of fracture of the long bones. In the united fractureof the long bone of the femur which is exhibited in the photograph, therewas less than two inches shortening, the length being fifteen and seven-eighths inches, while the companion femur, which shows a kind of post-mortem fracture, is seventeen and three-fourths inches in length. Theangular deformity is slight, and the result is not
. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens . ummits, wereevidently of great antiquity, about forty human skeletons, more or lesscomplete, which he sent to the Army Medical Museum. They furnishseveral examples of fracture of the long bones. In the united fractureof the long bone of the femur which is exhibited in the photograph, therewas less than two inches shortening, the length being fifteen and seven-eighths inches, while the companion femur, which shows a kind of post-mortem fracture, is seventeen and three-fourths inches in length. Theangular deformity is slight, and the result is not discreditable to pre-historic surgery. The bones are yellow, and very fragile. A full accountof Dr. Comforts interesting researches, together with other archcalogicalreports, is in process of compilation at this Office for publication in thenext volume of the Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge. Photographed at the Army IVIedical Museum. BY ORDER OF THE SURGEON GENERAL: GEO ROE A. OTIS,BvH Li. Col. and Asst Surg. U. S. A„ Curator A. M- iiWill, MililMKS id, Prepared under /he supervision of /tSSISTANT guRGEON pEORGE ft. PTIS, ]}. £. ORDER OF THE SURGEON GENERAL. WAR DEPARTMEHT, BURGEON PeNER»lsDff1CE, /tRMY MEDICAL ^MUSEUM. •* ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM. Photograph No. 227. Distal Extremity of the Rigid Femurshowing a Perforating and Longitudinal Fracture, with Com-minution, by a Spherical Musket-shot. Private Reuben Do-nelly, Co. A, 21st Ohio Volunteer, was wounded atBull Run, August 30, 1802, by a spherical musket-shot, which entered theright thigh just above the patella, and, passing directly through the limbfrom front to rear, divided the condyles, split the shaft upward severalinches, and comminuted the bone at the interaondyloid notch. He wasadmitted to the King Street Hospital at Alexandria on September 3, 1862,and, two days afterward, Surgeon J. E. Summers, U. S. A., amputated thethigh at the junction of the lower and middle third by the antero-posteriorflap
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