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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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fficient deposit of bone to render the armfirm without shortening. On June 25th, the patient was admitted to theCentral Park Hospital, New York City. The wound was in a sloughingcondition, and numerous fragments of exfoliated bone were removed.He was discharged the service on September 7, 1864, at which date thewound was reported healed and the arm firm. On September 14, 1864,Pension Examiner J. Clough reported the wound discharging profusely,and, every few days, pieces of bone were extracted. The arm wasanchylosed, and he rated his disability total and doubtful. On August 12,1869, a photograph was taken, which was contributed to the Army MedicalMuseum by Dr. J. 0. Webster, of the National Asylum for DischargedVolunteer Soldiers at Augusta, Maine. The limb was almost as strong asits fellow, but it had shortened nearly two inches, and the wound of exithad not healed. Printed at the Army Medical Museum. BY ORDER OF THE SURGEON GENERAL: GEORGE A. OTIS,Asst Surg. U. S. A., Curator A. M M.
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iiMtti mmmmm it. Trejiared nnrler the supervision of Assistant £urgeon Peorge j*.. pTis, )J. p. j*-BY ORDER OF THE SURGEON GENERAL. WAR DES-ASiTraiglSrT. £>URGEON pENERALspFFICE, (4RMY MEDICAL yWoSEUM. ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM. Photograph No. 235. Partial Recovery from a, CompoundFracture of the Left Thigh in the Upper Third, caused by aGonoidal Musket Ball. Private Thomas Welch, Co. F, 6th Maine Volunteers, aged twentyyears, was wounded on November 7, 1863, at Rappahannock Station, Vir-ginia, by a conoidal musket ball, which entered the front aspect of theleft thigh in the upper third, fractured the femur, and escaped at a pointnearly opposite. When admitted to Armory Square Hospital, on Novem-ber 9, 1863, his limb was slung in a frame, with a weight suspended fromthe foot, which was removed a few days afterward. Two pieces of bulletwere extracted, and cold water dressings applied. On May 26, 1864, hewas sent to Chester Hospital, Pennsylvania, and on March 7, 1865, wastransferred to

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