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A collection of foreign bodies retrieved from the bladder, including stones with foreign bodies as nuclei, all formed as a result of gunshot wounds:

• Left upper: stone formed around a bullet lodged in the bladder, which then healed
• Middle upper: half of a urinary calculus formed after gunshot wound to... the bladder, probably with mucus as its nucleus
• Right: Iron shrapnel ball encrusted
• Left lower: half of a large phosphatic calculus... its nucleus is a portion of the pubic bone, which was driven into the bladder by a musket ball, which passed out through the rectum
• Two middle figures in the lower row: uric acid calculi found post mortem in a soldier... shot through the bladder by a musket ball
• Right lower: Fragment of a grenade removed from the bladder

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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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lied. A stim-ulating enema was given. The patient was put to bed and the lowerextremities were surrounded by warm applications. In a few momentsthe effects of chloroform passed off, and slight reaction took place. Hecomplained much of numbness of the lower extremities. The temperatureof the axilla never rose above 96. He died half an hour after midnight,eleven and a half hours after the operation. At the autopsy, the ligaturewas found to embrace the aorta at the origin of the inferior mesenteryand included the left ureter. The rent in the sac was just ove^r the bifur-cation of the aorta. A careful report of the case is published by Prof.H. McGuire in the American Journal of the Medical Sciences, Vol. LVI, p.415, October, 1868. The pathological specimen was contributed to theArmy Medical Museum by Dr. McGuire, and is numbered 5256, Section I. Photographed at the Army Medical Museum. BY ORDER OF THE SURGEON GENERAL: GEORGE A. OTIS, BoH Lt. Col. and Asst Surg. U. S. A., Curator A. M. 31.
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iitiMi »!»,« m. Prepared under tr>e supervision of. Assistant Burgeon pEORGE A. Otis, U. S. A.BY OBDEBOF THE SDKGEON GENERAL BURGEON PENERA,_spPFICE. ^rm Y yVlEDICAL/VluSEUP. ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM. Photograph No. 223. Vesical Concretions resulting from Gun-shot Injuries. This photograph represents a series of seven specimens of foreignbodies removed from the bladder, all of which Avere directly or indi-rectly the result of gunshot injuries. These cases will be fully describedin the forthcoming Surgical History of the War. A simple memoran-dum is here given. The left hand figure of the upper row, (Specimen5019) is a round leaden bullet slightly encrusted, removed from thebladder of a South Carolinian soldier in 1865, by Dr. F. T. Miles, ofCharleston. The man was struck at the first battle of Bull Run, July,1861, above the pubes. The wound healed kindly and he returned toduty, and fought through the war, and never had any dysuria until themarch to Appomattox Court House in April, 18

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