. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens . Thebrain substance near the seat of injury was very much softened. Theleft hemisphere was covered with clotttd blood. The veins of bothhemispheres were engorged with blood. A piece of the bullet was found inthe third ventricle of the left hemisphere. The specimen was presentedto the Army Medical Museum by Acting Assistant Surgeon B. B. Milesand is No. 3418 of the Surgical Section. It consists of the vault of thecranium, perforated in the frontal region by an opening three-fourths byone and a fourth inches. Long fissures extend from this perforati
. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens . Thebrain substance near the seat of injury was very much softened. Theleft hemisphere was covered with clotttd blood. The veins of bothhemispheres were engorged with blood. A piece of the bullet was found inthe third ventricle of the left hemisphere. The specimen was presentedto the Army Medical Museum by Acting Assistant Surgeon B. B. Milesand is No. 3418 of the Surgical Section. It consists of the vault of thecranium, perforated in the frontal region by an opening three-fourths byone and a fourth inches. Long fissures extend from this perforation,and on its left edge is a partially fractured fragment of the inner table,an inch long and a fourth of an inch wide, depressed quarter of aninch. On the right margin of the perforation the outer table is removedleaving a sharp edge. It is probable that the ball split, a part passing-out external^. Photographed at the Army Medical Museum. BY ORDER OF THE SURGEON GENERAL: GEORGE A. OTIS, Bvt Li. Col. and Assi Surg. LI. S. A„ Curator A. M nimtM PiiiiiniFigs m» Treprtrrd tinder tfie supervisio?i of /kSSISTANT ^URGEON pEORGE A. DTJS U. S. ABY ORDER OF THE SURGEON GENERAL. WAR »E]PA3RX3OT3g;»rX. BURGEON pENERALspFFICE, ^RM Y yVlEDICAL yWuSEUIt § t!W0Ji &tnmY# Mil ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM. Photograph No. 214. Cranium Perforated hy a Musket Ball. This cranium was presented to the Army Medical Museum by SurgeonJerome B. Green, U. S. V., and is numbered 880 of the Surgical musket ball entered at the centre of the left branch of the coronalsuture, and passed out at the posterior inferior angle of the right, parietalbone, the opening of entrance being three-fourths of an inch, and that ofexit one and one-fourth inches in diameter. There is a fracture of theright orbital plate of the frontal, of the squamous portion of the righttemporal, and of the body of the right superior maxilla, probably bycontre coup. A fracture of the occipital bone extends from the openingof exit t
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