. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens . wing day he was etherized and the wound thoroughly examined byActing Assistant Surgeon C. Carvallo, who extracted pieces of bulletfrom each wound. Stimulants and concentrated nourishment were freelyadministered without effect, and the patient died from exhaustion onApril 10, 18G5. At the autopsy, twelve hours after death, decompositionwas rapidly setting in; the thoracic and abdominal viscera appearedhealthy; the fractured femur was disarticulated and sawn longitudinally,the medullary substance appearing inflamed, red and hardened. Thecase is int


. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens . wing day he was etherized and the wound thoroughly examined byActing Assistant Surgeon C. Carvallo, who extracted pieces of bulletfrom each wound. Stimulants and concentrated nourishment were freelyadministered without effect, and the patient died from exhaustion onApril 10, 18G5. At the autopsy, twelve hours after death, decompositionwas rapidly setting in; the thoracic and abdominal viscera appearedhealthy; the fractured femur was disarticulated and sawn longitudinally,the medullary substance appearing inflamed, red and hardened. Thecase is interesting from the number of pieces into which the bullet wassplit; viz., one which made its exit, two taken from the wounds, and onefound near the bone at the post mortem, making four in all. The patho-logical specimen was contributed by Assistant Surgeon W. F. Norris, A., and is No. 3168 of the Surgical Section. Photographed at the Army Medical Museum. BY ORDER OF THE SURGEON GENERAL: GEORGE A. OTIS, Asst Surg. U. S. A., Curator A. M. iiiiiiii, m#?©ii*m m* Trepared under the supervisio?i of Assistant Burgeon Peorge fi. Otis, p. £• frBY ORDER OF THE SURGEON GENERAL. WAR DES^ flURGEON pENERALs PFFICE, ^RMY MEDICAL yVUSEUM ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM. Photograph No. 231. Lower Half of Right Femur, exhibit-ing an Osteoplastic Operation and a Secondary Amputation. Private Grey Y. Barrett, Co. F, 5th New Hampshire Volunteers, agedtwenty years, was wounded at Fredericksburg on December 13, 1862, bya musket ball, which entered the outer condyle, and, escaping posteriorlyin the middle of the lower third of thigh, left the bone much comminutedat its exit He was admitted to the hospital of the First Division, NinthCorps, where, on the 16th, Assistant Surgeon J. W. S. Gouley, U. S. A., am-putated the femur a short distance above the wound of entrance, the pa-tella being included in the anterior flap; the line of section not havingescaped the wound, another third of an


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