A report on excisions of the head of the femur for gunshot injury.

Date:
1869
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A report on excisions of the head of the femur for gunshot injury. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A_ REPORT ON EXCISIONS OF THE HEAD OF THE FEMUR FOE GUNSHOT INJURY. BY GEORGE A. OTIS,* Assistant Surgeon and Brevet Lieutenant Colonel, U. S. Army. Surgeon General's Office, Washington, D. C, January 2, 1869. BREVET MAJOR GENERAL J. K. BARNES, Surgeon General, U. S. Army. General: In compliance with your instructions, I have prepared a report on excisions at the hip-joint for gunshot injury. The report contains an account of all such operations, performed during the war of the rebellion, of which it has been possible to obtain reliable descriptions—a comparison of the results of these operations with those of amputating at the hip, or of abstaining from operative interference—and a review of the excisions at the hip in military surgery in other countries. The instances afforded by the war of the removal of the head, or of the head, neck, and trochanters of the femur, on account of the immediate or remote effects of gunshot fractures of the upper extremity of the bone are numerous; the operations were performed under very varied circumstances ; and their results must have great weight in the deter-