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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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gh the fenestra of a very large catheter.The lobes of the piostate are much enlarged. On the right and middlelobes are several ulcers. The walls of the bladder are much thickened.The specimen measures as follows: from fundus to membranous portion ofurethra, six inches; across fundus and body of bladder, in which thecalculi are contained, four and one-eighth inches; from external wall offundus to top of middle lobe, two inches and seven-sixteenths; thicknessof walls of bladder, seven-eighths of an inch. The width of the left lobeof enlarged prostate is one inch; that of the right lobe two inches. Thewidth of the divided and degenerated prostate is four inches and ten-sixteenths. An analysis of the calculi by Dr. B. F. Craig shows thatthey consist almost entirely of uric acid. The specimen with the historywas contributed by Dr. Robert K. Stone, of Washington. Photographed at the Army Medical Museum. BY ORDER OF THE SURGEON GENERAL: GEORGE A. OTIS, .4*** Surg. (J. S. A., Curator A. M. U.
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iiiimi, iwiiiMM m* ■3rejmred under the supervisio?> of Assistant Surgeon Peorge A Otis U. S. A.HV ORDER OP THE SURGEON GENERAL. WAR DEPARTMEWT, fjURGEON pENERALspFFICE, ^RMY _/VlEDlCAL yWuSEUH Jtargwn dmmVjB (Stltit. ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM. Photograph No. 220. Ligamentous Preparation of the Bones ofthe Left Foot and Lower Portions of the Leg Bones, from a Caseof Confirmed Talipes Varus. This specimen, No. 852, Army Medical Museum, was taken from a Freed-man, who died of syphilis on November 25, 1860, at the Frecdmans Hos-pital in Washington. It was contributed, with the history, by HospitalSteward A. M. Squier. U. S. A. The foot is completely inverted, and theos calcis, which is small, is nearly parallel with the shafts of the legbones, and presents an irregular, knotted appearance. The patientwalked chiefly upon the anterior surface of the calcaneum and the astra-galus and dorsal surfaces of the other tarsal bones. The metatarsals areunusually slender, and the great toe overlaps th

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