Identifier: photographsofsur01unit (find matches)
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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removed to Fairfax Senilnary General Hospital. There were no cerebralsymptoms at the time of his admission, and it was hoped that the peri-cranium had escaped uninjured. He was up and apparently well onDecember 13th, 18G8, when he was suddenly seized with convulsions,which were followed by coma. Surgeon D. P. Smith, U. S. Vols , laidbare the calvaria at the seat of injury, and finding the bone diseased,applied !he trephine. Matter was found immediately beneath the boneand oozing from the diploe. It was thought expedient to make five per-forations with the trephine, in order to remove the diseased bone, andgive free exit to pus. Convulsions did not recur, but the comatose condi-tion continued, and the case terminated fatally twelve hours after theoperation. The autopsy revealed diffused inflammation of the arachnoidand dura mater. The Specimen is numbered 2000 in the Surgical Sectionof the Museum. Photographed at the Army Medical Museum. BY ORDER OF THE SURGEON GENERAL: GEORGE A. OTIS,
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Si Trepared mider tJie superrision of /SSISTANT PURGEON PeORGE A. DtiS USABY ORDER OP THE SUKGEON GENERAL. WAR Ek^^AR^SESXirx. ;=URGEON PenER ALS pPFICE, ;(kRMY yVlEDICAL /AUSEUM. .iii;;i0tt ©ieiiwii % ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM. Photograph No. 21. Skull, exhibiting an extensive Fracturefrom Grape-shot. The Missile entered the Left Parietal Bonenear the Lamhdoidal Suture, and emerged through the Squam-ous portion of the Temporal Bone. The specimen was picked up by Surgeon Frederick Wolfe, 39th NewYork Vols , in June, 1863, under an abatis near the stone bridge over BullRun, and is supposed to be the cranium of a confederate soldier, killedin the second battle of Manasses, August, 1862. At that action a portionof Longstreets Corps charged upon one of the federal batteries inposition near this locality. Photographed at the Army IVledical Museum, BY ORDER OF THE SURGEON GENERAL: m GEORGE A. OTIS, Bvt Li. Col. and AssHSurg. U. S. A., Curator A. M. M,

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