. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens . hosphatic calculus sawnasunder, and weighing grammes. It was obtained by exchangefrom the National Medical College, at Washington. The nucleus was awatermelon seed. It was removed by lithotomy from the bladder of anasty fellow. The right hand figure, (Specimen 48G6) represents a verylarge ovoid phosphatic calculus, weighing grammes. It was suc-cessfully removed from the bladder of a man from Ohio, by Surgeon F. Holston, U. S. Vols., by lateral lithotomy. Its surface is quitesmooth, and its composition unusually homogeneous. It
. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens . hosphatic calculus sawnasunder, and weighing grammes. It was obtained by exchangefrom the National Medical College, at Washington. The nucleus was awatermelon seed. It was removed by lithotomy from the bladder of anasty fellow. The right hand figure, (Specimen 48G6) represents a verylarge ovoid phosphatic calculus, weighing grammes. It was suc-cessfully removed from the bladder of a man from Ohio, by Surgeon F. Holston, U. S. Vols., by lateral lithotomy. Its surface is quitesmooth, and its composition unusually homogeneous. It is rarely that solarge a concretion is removed by lithotomy without being crushed andremoved in fragments. The long diameter of this calculus is two andthree-eighths inches, and the smallest diameter is two inches. There arelarger vesical calculi in the collection, but they were removed after death* Photographed at the Army IVSedica! Museum. BY ORDER OF THE SURGEON GENERAL: GEORGE A. OTIS, BvH Lt. Col. and Asst Surg. U. S. A., Curator A. M. iiii^iii w§?@iiMj m. Prepared muter the supervision of Assistant Burgeon Peorge A. Otis, U. S. A. BY ORDER OP THE SURGEON pENERALspPFICE, ARMY ,/V1eDICAI_ yVluSEU* mpm mmtm® mP ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM. Photograph No. 225. Transverse Fracture of the Femur inthe Middle Third by an unknown Missile. Elijah Drown, a colored civilian, aged fifty years, and by occupation afarm laborer, was injured August 15, 186-1, at City Point, by the explosionof ordnance stores. An unknown missile produced a compound fractureof the femur in the middle third, leaving a wound similar to that madeby a conoidal ball. He was sent to Philadelphia, and, on August 20th,was admitted to Satterlee Hospital. No foreign body could be detectedin the wound. The limb was shortened some two and a half or threeinches; the thigh was much swelled; and there was a profuse dischargefrom the wound, and a commencing bed sore over the sacrum. Thepatients bowels were lo
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