. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens . iimim iw?iiiurgeon , Army ^edical yVlUSEUM. ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM. Photograph No. 221. This is a representation of Specimen 5188 of the Surgical Section ofthe Army Medical Museum, showing the bones of the right leg and foot,with a luxation forward of the astragalus. The fibula exhibits an extra-ordinary concavity in its external middle third. The specimen is fromthe Van Wyck private collection, and was received with the Gibson Col-lection. Photographed at the Army Medical Museum. BY ORDER OF THE SURGEON GENERAL: GEORGE A. OTIS, Asst S
. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens . iimim iw?iiiurgeon , Army ^edical yVlUSEUM. ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM. Photograph No. 221. This is a representation of Specimen 5188 of the Surgical Section ofthe Army Medical Museum, showing the bones of the right leg and foot,with a luxation forward of the astragalus. The fibula exhibits an extra-ordinary concavity in its external middle third. The specimen is fromthe Van Wyck private collection, and was received with the Gibson Col-lection. Photographed at the Army Medical Museum. BY ORDER OF THE SURGEON GENERAL: GEORGE A. OTIS, Asst Surg. U. &. A„ Curator A. M iiiiiiii «?@iiwsj m* Prepared wider the supervisio?i of ^Assistant Surgeon Peorge A. Otis, p. S. fr BY ORDER OP TUE SURGEON GENERAL. WAR BEPAUTMEKT, rROEON pENER»LspFFICE, ^RMY ^MEDICAL yVlUSEUH ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM. Photograph No. 222. Ligation of the Abdominal Aorta forAneurism. William Fancy, a negro of thirty years, a wood chopper, was admittedto the Howard Grove Hospital, at Richmond, Virginia, March 20, stated that a week before while pursuing his ordinary avocation hefelt something give way in the lower part of his abdomen, a sensationfollowed by nausea and great pain. l)r. Hunter McGuire examined, andfound in the left iliac and hypogastric regions an aneurismal tumor thesize of a goose egg. No pulsation could be discovered in the left femoral;but no change in the temperature or size of the left leg was generel health was good. The patient said that the tumor graduallyincreased in size and was daily growing worse. Rest in bed, with dig-italis, iron, acetat
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