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Primary amputation at hip-joint.51111111111 annotate (attire. Army medical museum.
Photograph N 0. 151. Consolidated Gunshot Fracture of the Upper Thirds of both Femurs.
First Sergeant William Shakespeare, Co. K, 2d Michigan Volunteers, aged eighteen yea-rs, was wounded in action before Jackson, Mississippi, July 11th, 1863, by a conoidal musket ball entering on the outer aspect of the left thigh, in its upper third, causing a compound comminuted f1ac ture of the left femur, emerging externally in the upper third of the right thigh, breaking the right femur in its course. About the same time a conoidal ball shattered the head of the left fibula. And another gave him a flesh wound. While lying on the field he was severely wounded by some missile over the sacrum. He was admitted to the General Hospital of the Ninth Army Corps on the same day, from whence he was transferred to Cincinnati, Ohio, and admitted to Washington Park Hospital on the 12th 'of August, Union of the fragments of the left femur had taken place, with about seven inches shortening, the fragments crossing each other at a considerable angle, one of them protruding from the wound. Surgeon Norton, of the Washington Park Hospital, on the 14th of August broke up the temporary union of the fragments of the left femur, extended and dressed the limb. July 15th, 1864, discharged from service. April 2d, 1866: the union is complete; he is now, when standing on the right leg, one and one-quarter inches shorter than when he entered the service, and the left limb is one and three-quarter inches shorter than the right. The left femur is a little straighter than is normal; the left leg can be flexed upon the thigh to about the foot is contracted, rather stiff, and is sometimes painful: He walks with a light cane rather slowly, and with a halting gait. He sufl'ers considerably from neuralgia, and is not as robust as formerly.
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