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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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lightly depressed. Thi^ was elevated, and.the patient soon afterwards regained consciousness. Oil the 28th of June, the wound in the scalp became erysipelatous, and,before the inflammation subsided there was extensive loss of substance ofLhe integuments and pericranium, denuding a large portion of the parietalbone. Necrosis ensued, and embraced the whole thickness of the bone. In Soptemher, 1864, a portion of the parietal three inches by four, hadbecome so much loosened that it w.as readily removed by Act. Asst. SurgH. Craft. After this, cicatrization v/ent on. rapidly, and, iit the date ofthe last report, December 2d, 1864, the wound had contracted to an ulcerless than an incli in diameter. The patients mental faculties ^vel■c impaired more or less, .lie Nvaru.physician thought, but not to a great extent. ■ ,., ,, -.^ ^ . The specimen was contributed by Asst. Surgeon 0. A. McCali, b r,. a^ Fhotofir^aphed at the Army Medical Museum. OEOKGK A. OTIS, ^Surg. V. S. V., Curator A. K ^V
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Prepared under tfie supervision of Bl ORDER OP THE SURGEON GENERAl!: ^ ^Burgeon ^if^^^.^S^^^^^^^^^ ;- N MINERAL spFFICE,;4RMY;VlEDICAl-yWuSEUM. ■^(*T;itf5b««w»tij^^;gf;i«&.-.^ 11111101 m>BmtM% m%nu ijS ifJ •> ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM, Specimen No. 224. Portion of Left Parietal Bone, exhibitinga Slight Fraeture of the External Table and JExtensiveSplintering of the Vitreous Table. ■ Private Leonard L , Co. F, 74tla Now Yoi-k Yols., Avas wounded at tlie battle of Williamsburg, May 5th, 18G2, and was admitted into-Broad and Cherry Sts, .Hospital, at Philadelphia, May loth, 1862. A musket ball had struck near the left parietal eminence, and, pro-ducing a slight depression of the outer table, had lodged under thescalp, whence it had been removed b;v a surgeon on the Held. The woundhad an health)^ aspect when the man was admitted, and there was nocerebral disorder. This lavorablc condition continued unaltered untilMay 20th, wben a febrile movement

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