Identifier: MSHWRSurgical3 (find matches)
Title: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Part III, Volume II. (3rd Surgical volume)
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: U.S. Army Surgeon General's Office
Subjects: Civil War military medicine Medicine, Military -- History United States Surgery, Military Medical care Wounds and injuries -- Surgery United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Medical and sanitary affairs
Publisher: Otis Historical Archives, National Museum of Health and Medicine
Contributing Library: U.S. Army Medical Museum

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III, No. 32, p. 308), admitted to Chimborazo Hospital, Richmond, Juno 25,1862, with a slight wound of patella and integuments covering it, not penetrating joint. July 11th, patella partially necrosed; gangrene appeared oninner and outer aspect of knee joint, showing tendency to spread. July 18th, amputation of thigh at junction of middle and upper thirds. Death July18, 1862, a few minutes after the operation. A remark on the hospital register explains: The wound was deemed of trifling importance until the 11th,when the patella was discovered to be necrosed. The chloroform may have contributed to the unfavorable result, for it caused him to vomit freely, andhe was unable to retain any stimulants on his stomach. 3 Udell (J. A.), On Secondary Traumatic Lesions of Bone, vis: Osteo-myelitis, Periostitis, Ostitis, Caries, and Necrosis, in 17. S. SanitaryCommission Memoirs, 1870, Surgical Volume I, p. 414. 0 r> x X - o > - o -c - a I : 2 ;: = i*- »• ° — - r- ao o c 3)
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SECT. III.J SECONDAEY AMPUTATIONS OF THE THIGH. 30 failing, and, there being no hope of saving his life without amputation, he was placed under the influence of sulphuric ether,digital compression applied to the femoral artery, and the thigh amputated in the upper third, by the double flap method, bySurgeon .T. A. Lidell, U. S. V. The femur was sawn off about one and a half inches below the trochanter minor. The softparts of the thigh were so much diseased as not to admit the performance of the operation at any point below. But little bloodwas lost (lining the operation. There was a good deal of shock, but he reacted promptly afterward. In a short time the stumpbecame sloughy; he gradually failed, and died of exhaustion April 26, 1803. On examining the amputated member, extensiveburrowing of pus was found among the muscles of the thigh, and numerous small pieces of the bullet and fragments of bonesticking into the soft part around the seat of fracture. The ends of the broken femur wer

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