. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens . of the Surgical Section. It is a section of the cranium,showing penetration and fracture of the left temporal bone just aboveand including the meatus auditorius externus, with fracture of theoccipital by contre-coup, caused by a conoidal ball, which is opening is just above the root of the zygoma and is three-fourths ofan inch in diameter. The condyle of the lower jaw and the posteriorhalf of the glenoid fossa are carried away, together with the extremityof the petrous portion of the temporal bone, the line of fracture passingthrough
. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens . of the Surgical Section. It is a section of the cranium,showing penetration and fracture of the left temporal bone just aboveand including the meatus auditorius externus, with fracture of theoccipital by contre-coup, caused by a conoidal ball, which is opening is just above the root of the zygoma and is three-fourths ofan inch in diameter. The condyle of the lower jaw and the posteriorhalf of the glenoid fossa are carried away, together with the extremityof the petrous portion of the temporal bone, the line of fracture passingthrough the internal meatus auditorius. From the left jugular foramentwo lines of fracture pass to the foramen magnum, one in front of andthe other behind the condyle. On the right side the occipital bone istraversed by a fracture which runs from the foramen magnum to theposterior angle of the right parietal. Photographed at the Army Medical Museum. BY ORDER OF THE SURGEON GENERAL: GEORGE A. Lt. Col. and Asst Surg. U. S. A., Curator A. M- iiiaii *«!;« m* Prepared under the supervision of Assistant £urgeon Peorge A. Otis, U. S. OKDEB OF THE SDRGEON GENERAL. WAR DEr^aJFtYMENrT. ^URGEON GENERALS pPFICE, ^ARMY yVlEDICAL //lUSEUH ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM. Successful Intermediate Excision of the Photograph No. Knee-Joint. Captain Charles Knowlton, 10th Louisiana Regiment, of EwelPs Corps, aged twenty-sixyears was wounded at Mine Run, Virginia, November 27, 1863, by a conoidal musket ball,which grooved the outer condyle of the right femur, barely touched the cartilage, openedthe synovial sac, was deflected, and lodged near the upper edge of the patella whence it wasremoved, on the field, through an incision, after the wounded man had walked half a mileto the rear leaning on the shoulder of one of his men. He was then transported over roughroads in an ambulance to the nearest railway station, and conveyed to Richmond andentered General Hospital No. 4, two days after
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