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Partially consolidated gunshot fracture of the upper third of the right femur

Partially consolidated gunshot fracture of the upper third of the right femur

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Photograph shows deformed leg of Private George Ruoss (or Roos?) of Company G, 7th New York Volunteers, who was wounded at South Side Railroad, near Petersburg, Virginia, on March 31, 1856, by a conoidal musket ball.
Illus. in: Photographs of surgical cases and specimens / Prepared by [...] George A. Otis, Assistant Surgeon, U.S.A. Washington [D.C.] : Surgeon General's Office, no. 179.
Photographed at the Army Medical Museum.

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01/01/1867
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