. The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Part III, Volume II. (3rd Surgical volume) . e right leg. After some weeks it was found that the leg must be amputated at orabove the knee joint. Dr. decided to amputate at the knee joint by a new operation (as he suidj, and the operation was certainly newto his associates and assistants. He made a circular incision from tlte internal tuberosity of the tibia across the leg below the patella to the head of thefibula, dissected this flap up to about the middle of the patella, cut through the ligumentum patellae close to
. The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Part III, Volume II. (3rd Surgical volume) . e right leg. After some weeks it was found that the leg must be amputated at orabove the knee joint. Dr. decided to amputate at the knee joint by a new operation (as he suidj, and the operation was certainly newto his associates and assistants. He made a circular incision from tlte internal tuberosity of the tibia across the leg below the patella to the head of thefibula, dissected this flap up to about the middle of the patella, cut through the ligumentum patellae close to the lower border of the bone, and turnedback the flap. He then made the posterior flap by passing the knife beneath the femur and cutting outward and downward. He then sawed throughthe femur jusl above the condyles, and removed a section from the posterior or internal surface of the patella by the saw. Next he adjusted the sawnsurface of the patella to the sawn extremity of the femur and adjusted the flaps in the usual manner, The patient died in about sixteen hours, on accountof previous exhaustion.■. plate: lxxhi 1 Stump after ^imputation livanterior Unji Spcr Mi 3 Stump niter ■ ii 11 j. r. ::: 111 l>\ allien! |)OStl-lioi flaps Spec. (HIT•> Sll|||||i Ililll . I: > I >: I 1. 111. M i |>v flaps S|,... .;,m;;. THIGH STUMPS - Stump idler amputation bvposterior flop Spot! 117 I. Stump after Humiliation bvcircular Unji. Spec iOi^ (i Stump after amputation l>y PlnpoCsUi;uid circular cjf muscles Spec _;> SECT. III.] SHOT INJURIES OF THE FEMUR. 357
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