Identifier: photographsofsur05unit (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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ion from theend of the bone. A dissection of the amputated arm confirmed the opinion held in referenceto the artery: two large trunks had formed, showing bifurcation above the point of ligation.On August 17, 1S65, the patient was sent to the head-quarters of his regiment to be mus-tered out. The specimen is No. 1588 of the Surgical Section, and was contributed, with thehistory, by Acting Assistant Surgeon W. S. Hendrie. The central figure represents the lower two-thirds of the left radius and ulna, apparentlyamputated. About two inches of the ulna in the lowest third is wanting; and the radius,directly opposite, is transversely fractured without displacement, (probably by the samemissile nearly spent,) with slight Assuring, extending, posteriorly, to the styloid process.The specimen is No. 2571 of the Surgical Section; the contributor and history are unknown. Photographed at the Army Medical Museum. BY ORDER OF THE SURGEON GENERAL: GEORGE A. OTIS, Asst Surg. U. 8. A„ Curator A. M M.
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Prepared under the supervise Assistant JSurgeon Peobge ft. pns BY ORDER OF THE SUROE0H OEKERAL, WAR DiES»A.3R.1,a«EEJWX, gURGEON PENERALS pFFlCE, ^RMY yWEDICA ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM. Photograph No. 250. Specimens exhibiting Comminuted Frac-tures of the Right and Left Forearm The Left shows a transverse fracture of the radius in the middle third,without displacement. The ulna is fractured, with the loss of one inchin the middle third. This specimen, in which no pathological changes arenoticeable, was contributed by Surgeon J. E. Summers, U. S. A., and isNo 320 of the Surgical Section. The Right shows a transverse fracture of the radius in the lower third,with both fragments longitudinally fissured. The ulna has two transversefractures; one in the middle third, and one just above the lower extremity.These bones are the result of an unsuccessful amputation, performed onPrivate A. P. Bush, Troop F, 1st Massachusetis Cavalry, aged twenty-nine years, who was wounded at Bristow Station, Virgi

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