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Comminuted fracture of the left femur from gunshot wound after surgery and healing

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Title: Photographs of surgical cases and specimens
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: United States. Surgeon-General's Office Otis, George A. (George Alexander) 1830-1881 Brinton, John H. (John Hill), 1832-1907, collecter Bell, William, 1830-1910, photographer Army Medical Museum (U.S.)
Subjects: Medicine, Military Medicine, Military Surgery, Operative Surgery, Operative Military Medicine American Civil War General Surgery Wounds and injuries
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Surgeon General's Office
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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bles.Lower half of femur, showing a partially consolidated gunshot fracture.Partially consolidated fracture of femur.Head and upper third of humerus, shattered by conoidal ball, which is attached.Deformed, but firmly united gunshot fracture of femur, immedi-ately below trochanters.Transverse gunshot fracture of clavicle at middle—ball attached.Sequestrum from tibia, involving nearly the entire shaft.Recovery, after excision of head and upper portion of shaft of femur for gunshot fracture.Right humerus and elbow, showing necrosis of entire humerus following gunshot fracture of epiphysis.Right tibia and fibula, comminuted by cannon ball.Recovery after gunshot fracture of both parietals.Consolidated gunshot fracture of femur.Consolidated gunshot fracture of femur—lower third.Consolidated gunshot fracture of femur—lower third.Consolidated gunshot fracture of femur—upper third.Consolidated gunshot fracture of femur—lower third.Consolidated gunshot fracture of femur—lower third.
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ill Trepared under the szipervision of Assistant ^urgeon Peorge A. Otis, U. S. A. BY ORDER OF THE SURGEON GENERAL. ^URGEON pENERALs PfFICE, ;4rMY yVlEDICA yVLuSEUM. ARMY MEofcAL MUSEUM. Photograph No. 50. Coinphtehj ConsoJidated Gunshot Fractureof the Lower Third, of the Left Femur. Private Charles Westerfield, Co. B, 5t.h New York Cavalry, aged twenty-two years, was wounded at the battle of the Wilderness, May 5, 1864, bya conoidal musket ball, which produced a comminuted fracture of thelower third of the left femur. He remained for two days in a field hos-pital, and was then transferred to Fredericksburg in an ambulance. Hewas treated at Fredericksburg with a starch bandage and moderateextension. On May 25th he was transferred to Armory Square Hospital,at Washington, where the fractured limb was supported by SmithsAnterior Splint. During May and June, a number of fragments of bonewere eliminated. In August, the wounds closed and the fracture appearedto be firmly united, and on Septe

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