. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens . terior aspect of the upperthird of the left thigh, and lodged against the femur, which was fracturedwith extensive longitudinal splitting. He was conveyed to ArmorySquare Hospital at Washington. No particulars of the treatment em-ployed can be ascertained; but it is reported that in March, 1863, he wasable to go about on crutches, and that he was doing well until thelatter part of May, when an attack of cerebro-spinal meningitis super-vened, and terminated fatally on the 25th of May, 1863. Upon the exam-ination of the injured limb, the fractured
. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens . terior aspect of the upperthird of the left thigh, and lodged against the femur, which was fracturedwith extensive longitudinal splitting. He was conveyed to ArmorySquare Hospital at Washington. No particulars of the treatment em-ployed can be ascertained; but it is reported that in March, 1863, he wasable to go about on crutches, and that he was doing well until thelatter part of May, when an attack of cerebro-spinal meningitis super-vened, and terminated fatally on the 25th of May, 1863. Upon the exam-ination of the injured limb, the fractured extremities of the femur werefound to be united, with great angular deformity, by irregular arches ofcallus. A fragment of the ball was enclosed between the arches. Thespecimen was contributed by Assistant Surgeon C. C. Byrne, U. S. is figured on page 280 of the Catalogue of the Surgical Section of theMuseum. Photographed at the Army Medical ORDER OF THE SURGEON GENERAL: GEO ROE A. OTIS, ^ Surg. U. S. A,, Curator A. M- iiiiiiii Piitiiiii^^i 8ii, Trejjared mider t>ie svjje7-fision of ^Assistant Burgeon Peorge A. Otis USA BY ORDER OF THE SURGEON GENEKAL. ^ ^ ;>URGEON PENERALsppFICE, >RMY yVlEDICAL/iuSEUM. lamasi ■C^y nt;i|iejs,ni #«tt0iars ilfiicf 2()7. L(>irvr JIalf of Left Fthnir, (^xlilhitiiHj a partialli/ (onsoln/atid Gir/ishot Fracture of the Thr. dpfonned (kilhc!< encloses srvenil Necrosed Spfinters and c hattercd Musket Ball. Sergearjt Sewoll Douglas, Co. G, Maine iRa\\Artillery, aged 28 \-oars, was woiiiulcd attlic battle of Spott^ylvania. ;ni(iwas a<iinitted to Emory Hospital, at Wasliington,, May 22d, ISti4. Ainnsket ball, entering postorioily, bad iVactuiid tin Iiamm- tliifd of IIk^left femur and lodged in the niedallary eavity. The injured limb place<l on a double; inclined ]ilani, and iiiodirate(VN^tension was used. Interniiily, stimulants and tonie- were riiiployed. In August, 1864
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