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Musket ball lodged in third lumbar vertebra, soldier died of tetanus

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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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Si Trepared mider tJie superrision of /SSISTANT PURGEON PeORGE A. DtiS USABY ORDER OP THE SUKGEON GENERAL. WAR Ek^^AR^SESXirx. ;=URGEON PenER ALS pPFICE, ;(kRMY yVlEDICAL /AUSEUM. .iii;;i0tt ©ieiiwii % ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM. Photograph No. 21. Skull, exhibiting an extensive Fracturefrom Grape-shot. The Missile entered the Left Parietal Bonenear the Lamhdoidal Suture, and emerged through the Squam-ous portion of the Temporal Bone. The specimen was picked up by Surgeon Frederick Wolfe, 39th NewYork Vols , in June, 1863, under an abatis near the stone bridge over BullRun, and is supposed to be the cranium of a confederate soldier, killedin the second battle of Manasses, August, 1862. At that action a portionof Longstreets Corps charged upon one of the federal batteries inposition near this locality. Photographed at the Army IVledical Museum, BY ORDER OF THE SURGEON GENERAL: m GEORGE A. OTIS, Bvt Li. Col. and AssHSurg. U. S. A., Curator A. M. M,
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Prepared under the supervision of /Assistant Surgeon Peorge A. Otis USABY ORDEK OP THE SUROEON GENERAL. JiURGEON PenERALs PffICE, /tRMY yVlEDICAL, yW.USEU^ ARMY MEdTcAL MUSEUM. Photograph No. 20. Second, Third, and Fourth Lumbar Ver-tehrse, with a Conoidal Ball imbedded in the Left Side of theBody of the Third Lumbar Vertebra. Private Thomas Darning, Co. F, 1st Michigan Sharpshooters, agednineteen years, was wounded, June 26, 1864, and admitted into StantonU. S. General Hospital, Washington July 1, 1864, An elongated musketball, entering the loins just above the crest of the left ilium, buried itselfin the body of the third lumbar vertebra, carrying with it a portion ofthe mans blouse. On July 4th, symptoms of tetanus appeared, whichbecame rapidly of the gravest nature, and the case terminated fatally onthe next day, July 5, 1864. The specimen was contributed by AssistantSurgeon George A. Mursick, U. S. Vols. Photographed at the Army Medical Museum. BY ORDER OF THE SURGEON GENERAL: QE

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