. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens . was removed, and one similarto Desaults substituted, with a short anterior one, it being impossible toapply them either laterally or posteriorly on account of the number ofopenings. The fragments remained in apposition rather better by thisapparatus ; but it was so uncomfortable that it was removed in a few daysand there being no hope of union, short splints covered with oiled silkwere placed around the thigh, and the leg swung in a fracture box, thisbeing the most comfortable support that could be devised. He died onOctober 24 1862. The limb was
. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens . was removed, and one similarto Desaults substituted, with a short anterior one, it being impossible toapply them either laterally or posteriorly on account of the number ofopenings. The fragments remained in apposition rather better by thisapparatus ; but it was so uncomfortable that it was removed in a few daysand there being no hope of union, short splints covered with oiled silkwere placed around the thigh, and the leg swung in a fracture box, thisbeing the most comfortable support that could be devised. He died onOctober 24 1862. The limb was examined six hours after death. Thesoft parts from the knee to the groin were utterly disorganized. Thefemur was removed and sent to the Army Medical Museum. The brokenextremities were covered with spongy callus ; but a cylindrical seques-trum interposed between the fragments, and there was no union. Photographed at the Army Medical Museum. BY ORDER OF THE SURGEON GENERAL: GEORGE A. OTIS,Bvt I A. Col. and Asst Surg. U. S. A., Curator A. M. 1repared wider t?/e supervision of /ASSISTANT guRGEON pEORGE fr. pTIS, )J. £. f-BY ORDER OF THE SURGEON GENERAL. ^URGEON pENERALspFFICE, ^RMT MEDICAL yWuSEUM ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM. Photograph No. 245. Upper Portion of the Right Femurfractured hy a Conoidai Musket Ball just below the Trochanters,with Profuse Deposit of Callus without Union. Private S. Manley, Co. A, 63d New York Volunteers, aged twenty-sixyears, was wounded at tbe battle of Gettysburg, July 2, 1863, by a con-oidai musket ball, which fractured the upper third of the right was sent to Camp Letterman Hospital at Gettysburg on August 4th,where the limb was treated by the double inclined plane and simpledressings. Partial union had taken place. On September 3d there wasa profuse discharge from the wound, and the patient was rapidly was, also, great shortening of the limb. He died October 8, history reports a complete false joint, the head and soc
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