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Fractured and healed femur with normal femur for comparison (which has a postmortem fracture visible)

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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
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ed from legby adhesive strips, husk bags being placed along either side. This ar-rangement, along with the straight board splint, was extremely incon-venient, and could not be kept in proper order. The bed sore had becomethe source of great discomfort, the discharge being profuse and exhausting.Simple dressings and expectant treatment were used. On September 1st,all appliances were removed from the leg. The patient was much reducedby suppuration from the wound and from the bed sore. He was extremelyrestless, and there were no signs of union of the fragments. A profusediarrhoea withstanding all treatment now set in, and continued until thepatients death, which occurred at 8, A. M., on September 12, 1864. Thespecimen, showing considerable exfoliation near the two ends of the frag-ments, was contributed, with the history, by Acting Assistant SurgeonA. L. Eakin. Photographed at the Army Medical Museum. BY ORDER OF THE SURGEON GENERAL: GEORGE A. OTIS, Asst Surg, U. S. A., Curator A. M. if.
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niiiiM, Miiitii^i m* Trepnred under ttie supervision of Assistant (Surgeon Peorge /t. p-ris, p. S. _AHY ORDER OF THE SURuEON GENERAL. WAR rJEp^jR^jyu^jj^, ^URGEON pENERALspFFICE, y»RMY MeDICAL^USEU* ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM. Photograph No. 226. United Simple Fracture of the RightFemur of a Mound Builder. In 1868, Acting Assistant Surgeon A. J. Comfort made a minute andpainstaking exploration of several tumuli in the vicinity of Fort Wads-worth, Dakota Territory. He was fortunate enough to obtain from thesemounds, which, from the large size of the trees upon their summits, wereevidently of great antiquity, about forty human skeletons, more or lesscomplete, which he sent to the Army Medical Museum. They furnishseveral examples of fracture of the long bones. In the united fractureof the long bone of the femur which is exhibited in the photograph, therewas less than two inches shortening, the length being fifteen and seven-eighths inches, while the companion femur, which shows a kind of post-

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