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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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SURGICAL PHOTOGRAPH NO. ..... Prepared under the supervision of Assistant Surgeon George A. Otis U. S. A. by Order of the Surgeon General. WAR DEPARTMENT Surgeon General's Office Army Medical Museum.
Photograph No. 226. United Simple Fracture of the Right Femur of a Mound Builder.
In 1868, Acting Assistant Surgeon A. J. Comfort made a minute and painstaking exploration of several tumuli in the vicinity of Fort Wads-worth, Dakota Territory. He was fortunate enough to obtain from these mounds, which, from the large size of the trees upon their summits, were evidently of great antiquity, about forty human skeletons, more or less complete, which he sent to the Army Medical Museum. They furnish several examples of fracture of the long bones. In the united fracture of the long bone of the femur which is exhibited in the photograph, there was less than two inches shortening, the length being fifteen and seven-eighths inches, while the companion femur, which shows a kind of post-mortem fracture is

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