civil war

civil war /medicalmuseum/taxonomy/term/11/all en Specimen 5 /medicalmuseum/exhibits/warbones/specimens/specimen05 <img alt="Civil war specimen" style="width: 529px; height: 500px;" class="media-element file-original " src="/medicalmuseum/files/medicalmuseum/03_2.jpg" width="1619" height="1531" /> Ribs. Portions of 11th and 12th ribs showing fractures and adjacent callus (FIG. 1). Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:41:06 +0000 joan.omalley@mcgill.ca 457 at /medicalmuseum Specimen 2 /medicalmuseum/exhibits/warbones/specimens/specimen02 <img alt="Civil war specimen" style="width: 234px; height: 600px;" class="media-element file-original " src="/medicalmuseum/files/medicalmuseum/02_1.jpg" width="711" height="1822" /> Tibia/Fibula. The tibia consists almost entirely of a sequestrum surrounded by a thick involuculum. The origin of several sinuses (FIG. 1) are evident on the surface. The fibula is united to the tibial involucrum and to the os calcaneous below by dense callus (FIG. 2). Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:41:05 +0000 joan.omalley@mcgill.ca 448 at /medicalmuseum Specimen 7 /medicalmuseum/exhibits/warbones/specimens/specimen07 <img alt="07 civil war specimen" style="width: 240px; height: 500px;" class="media-element file-original " src="/medicalmuseum/files/medicalmuseum/07_0.jpg" width="943" height="1966" /> Femur. Fracture of the upper third of the shaft with poor apposition, united by irregular callus. The injury was sustained at Gaines' Mill on June 27, 1862. The patient was admitted to the hospital on July 30 and died of sepsis September 26. Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:41:05 +0000 joan.omalley@mcgill.ca 454 at /medicalmuseum A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown /medicalmuseum/exhibits/warbones/oslerwhitman/poetry05 <a name="poetry05" id="poetry05"></a><div class="mediaelement-video"><video src="/medicalmuseum/files/medicalmuseum/warbones-poetry-01_14-dec.mp4" class="mediaelement-formatter-identifier-1729619601-1" controls="controls" height="385" width="640"></video></div> A march in the ranks hard-prest, and the road unknown, A route through a heavy wood with muffled steps in the darkness, Our army fil’d with loss severe, and the sullen remnant retreating, Till after midnight glimmer upon us in the woods, and halt by the dim-lighted building, Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:41:05 +0000 joan.omalley@mcgill.ca 445 at /medicalmuseum The Wound-Dresser /medicalmuseum/exhibits/warbones/oslerwhitman/poetry01 <div class="mediaelement-video"><video src="/medicalmuseum/files/medicalmuseum/warbones-poetry-03-01_the-wound-dresser.mp4" class="mediaelement-formatter-identifier-1729619601-3" controls="controls" height="385" width="640"></video></div> Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:41:05 +0000 joan.omalley@mcgill.ca 451 at /medicalmuseum Reconciliation /medicalmuseum/exhibits/warbones/oslerwhitman/poetry04 <div class="mediaelement-video"><video src="/medicalmuseum/files/medicalmuseum/warbones-poetry-05_reconciliation.mp4" class="mediaelement-formatter-identifier-1729619601-11" controls="controls" height="385" width="640"></video></div> Word over all, beautiful as the sky, Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage must in time be utterly lost, That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again, and ever again, this soil’d world; For my enemy is dead, a man divine as myself is dead, Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:41:05 +0000 joan.omalley@mcgill.ca 441 at /medicalmuseum Specimen 12 /medicalmuseum/exhibits/warbones/specimens/specimen12 <img alt="Civil war specimen" style="width: 242px; height: 540px;" class="media-element file-original " src="/medicalmuseum/files/medicalmuseum/12_0.jpg" width="1079" height="2408" /> Femur. Tubular sequestrum from amputated stump. Fracture of ankle occurred under unknown circumstances at Cold Harbour on June 3, 1864. An amputation took place March 19, 1865, and the patient was discharged August 15. <h3>The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion</h3> Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:41:05 +0000 joan.omalley@mcgill.ca 443 at /medicalmuseum Specimen 23 /medicalmuseum/exhibits/warbones/specimens/specimen23 <img alt="Civil war specimen" style="width: 233px; height: 500px;" class="media-element file-original " src="/medicalmuseum/files/medicalmuseum/23_0.jpg" width="1014" height="2174" /> Femur. Stump showing a sequestrum partly covered by a conical involucrum. The tibia were fibula were fractured around the knee joint by a rifle ball on November 28, 1863. The patient was admitted to the hospital December 4 and amputation was performed December 15. He died January 6, 1864. Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:41:04 +0000 joan.omalley@mcgill.ca 416 at /medicalmuseum Specimen 21 /medicalmuseum/exhibits/warbones/specimens/specimen21 <img alt="Civil war specimen" style="width: 300px; height: 460px;" class="media-element file-original " src="/medicalmuseum/files/medicalmuseum/21cv.jpg" width="1191" height="1824" /> Femur. 2.5 inches of stump have been removed for "protrusion". The sequestrum has partially separated from the callus and the residual viable bone. Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:41:04 +0000 joan.omalley@mcgill.ca 424 at /medicalmuseum Specimen 22 /medicalmuseum/exhibits/warbones/specimens/specimen22 <img alt="22 civil war specimen" height="1336" width="3252" style="width: 633px; height: 260px;" class="media-element file-original " src="/medicalmuseum/files/medicalmuseum/22_0.jpg" /> Femur. The entire shaft is necrotic and partially encased by an irregular involucrum. Fracture of the knee occurred in the Battle of the Wilderness on May 6, 1864. Amputation was performed at the middle third of the femur 39 days later; the patient died of "exhaustion" 41 days after that. Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:41:04 +0000 joan.omalley@mcgill.ca 418 at /medicalmuseum Specimen 4 /medicalmuseum/exhibits/warbones/specimens/specimen04 <img alt="04 fracture civil war specimen" style="width: 271px; height: 600px;" class="media-element file-original " src="/medicalmuseum/files/medicalmuseum/04_fracture_0.jpg" width="865" height="1912" /> Humerus. Comminuted fracture of lower half of right humerus just above the elbow. Gunshot fracture was sustained at Second Bull Run on August 30, 1862. The patient was admitted to the hospital on September 1 and amputation was performed on September 6. He recovered completely in 3 weeks. Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:41:04 +0000 joan.omalley@mcgill.ca 427 at /medicalmuseum Specimen 3 /medicalmuseum/exhibits/warbones/specimens/specimen03 <img alt="Civil war specimen" style="width: 275px; height: 600px;" class="media-element file-original " src="/medicalmuseum/files/medicalmuseum/03_1.jpg" width="951" height="2078" /> Femur. The shaft is fractured obliquely 11 cm from the distal end. Union has not occurred despite the presence of a large amount of callus (FIG. 1) at the ends of both fragments. A sequestrum is evident at the bottom of the upper fragment. Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:41:04 +0000 joan.omalley@mcgill.ca 430 at /medicalmuseum Specimen 15 /medicalmuseum/exhibits/warbones/specimens/specimen15 <img alt="Specimen 15 civil war femur" style="width: 256px; height: 500px;" class="media-element file-original " src="/medicalmuseum/files/medicalmuseum/15_0.jpg" width="1055" height="2062" /> Femur. Oblique gunshot fracture. Upper and lower portions of the bone are separated, but united by callus in several places. Injury sustained at Chickamauga, September 20, 1863. Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:41:04 +0000 joan.omalley@mcgill.ca 433 at /medicalmuseum William Hammond /medicalmuseum/exhibits/warbones/amm/hammond <div class="image-caption-container rt"><img style="float: right;height: 265px; width: 193px;" class="rt" height="265" width="193" src="/medicalmuseum/files/medicalmuseum/images/warbones-armymedical-hammond-193px.jpg" alt="" title="Surgeon-General William Hammond, c. 1862. - Library of Congress" /><div class="image-caption">Surgeon-General William Hammond, c. 1862. - Library of Congress</div></div>William Hammond was born in Maryland in 1828 and received a degree in Medicine from the University of the City of New York in 1848. Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:41:04 +0000 joan.omalley@mcgill.ca 425 at /medicalmuseum Specimen 6 /medicalmuseum/exhibits/warbones/specimens/specimen06 <img alt="Civil war specimen" style="width: 364px; height: 600px;" class="media-element file-original " src="/medicalmuseum/files/medicalmuseum/06_1.jpg" width="1346" height="2220" /> Skull. A slightly depressed fracture is evident adjacent to the fontanelle, associated with a small defect and a fracture line (FIG. 1) that runs anteriorly on the surface of the frontal bone. Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:41:04 +0000 joan.omalley@mcgill.ca 420 at /medicalmuseum