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Soldier with right arm missing This is one of a series of watercolours by the surgeon Charles Bell (1774-1842) of wounded soldiers from the battle of Waterloo. Bell had hurried from London to Brussels in June 1815 to assist in treating the wounded. At the same time he filled a sketchbook with interesting cases which were subsequently worked up as watercolour paintings for teaching purposes. This man, a member of the King's German Legion, had his upper right arm shattered, presumably by a cannon ball. An incomplete amputation had been carried out. Subsequently the wound was tidied up and the remaining part of the humerus, or upper arm bone, was removed just below the shoulder socket. This was a very difficult operation, the more so as the patient was by now suffering from tetanus, causing violent muscle spasms. Almost miraculously he survived, one of only two cases of tetanus among the wounded of Waterloo that were cured. Archives & Manuscripts |
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Short title | L0022546 Watercolour: soldier with right arm missing |
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Author | Wellcome Library, London |
Headline | L0022546 Watercolour: soldier with right arm missing |
Copyright holder | Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Image title | L0022546 Watercolour: soldier with right arm missing
Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomeimages.org Soldier with right arm missing This is one of a series of watercolours by the surgeon Charles Bell (1774-1842) of wounded soldiers from the battle of Waterloo. Bell had hurried from London to Brussels in June 1815 to assist in treating the wounded. At the same time he filled a sketchbook with interesting cases which were subsequently worked up as watercolour paintings for teaching purposes. This man, a member of the King's German Legion, had his upper right arm shattered, presumably by a cannon ball. An incomplete amputation had been carried out. Subsequently the wound was tidied up and the remaining part of the humerus, or upper arm bone, was removed just below the shoulder socket. This was a very difficult operation, the more so as the patient was by now suffering from tetanus, causing violent muscle spasms. Almost miraculously he survived, one of only two cases of tetanus among the wounded of Waterloo that were cured. Watercolour 1815 By: Charles BellPublished: - Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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