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"...the bones of the right leg and foot, with a luxation forward of the astragalus. The fibula exhibits an extra-ordinary concavity in its external middle third."

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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fjURGEON pENERALspFFICE, ^RMY _/VlEDlCAL yWuSEUH Jtargwn dmmVjB (Stltit. ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM. Photograph No. 220. Ligamentous Preparation of the Bones ofthe Left Foot and Lower Portions of the Leg Bones, from a Caseof Confirmed Talipes Varus. This specimen, No. 852, Army Medical Museum, was taken from a Freed-man, who died of syphilis on November 25, 1860, at the Frecdmans Hos-pital in Washington. It was contributed, with the history, by HospitalSteward A. M. Squier. U. S. A. The foot is completely inverted, and theos calcis, which is small, is nearly parallel with the shafts of the legbones, and presents an irregular, knotted appearance. The patientwalked chiefly upon the anterior surface of the calcaneum and the astra-galus and dorsal surfaces of the other tarsal bones. The metatarsals areunusually slender, and the great toe overlaps the two adjoining ones. Photographed 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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iimim iw?iiiurgeon PeneralsPff.ce, Army ^edical yVlUSEUM. ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM. Photograph No. 221. This is a representation of Specimen 5188 of the Surgical Section ofthe Army Medical Museum, showing the bones of the right leg and foot,with a luxation forward of the astragalus. The fibula exhibits an extra-ordinary concavity in its external middle third. The specimen is fromthe Van Wyck private collection, and was received with the Gibson Col-lection. Photographed at the Army Medical Museum. BY ORDER OF THE SURGEON GENERAL: GEORGE A. OTIS, Asst Surg. U. &. A„ Curator A. M M.

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