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21883583Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellionwounds and injuries of the lower extremitieswounds and operations at the ankle jointshot fractures of the bones of the ankle jointshot fractures of the bones of the ankle joint treated by conservationpyæmiagunshot fracture of tibia and fibula, flesh wounds of both lower extremities, wound of
thoraxfibula transversely fractured in lowest fourth, anterior tibia shattered into ankle
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CASE 829.—Private W. H.
Perry, Co. C, 1st Massachusetts Heavy
Artillery, aged 39 years, received a gunshot fracture of the right tibia and fibula,
also flesh wounds of both lower extremities, and a wound of the thorax, at SpottsylvaniaSpotsylvania, May 19,1864. He entered Lincoln Hospital, at Washington, three days afterwards, where he died of pyæmia May 30, 1864. The history, with the pathological specimen (No. 4580),
represented in the accompanying cut (FIG. 335), was contributed to
the Museum by Assistant
Surgeon J. C. McKee, U. S. A. The specimen
consists of the greater portion of the bones of the right leg, showing the fibula to be
transversely fractured in the lowest fourth and the anterior portion of the tibia shattered into
the ankle.