Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Images from the History of Medicine (NLM)
Title:
John White R. B. Bontecou.
Contributor (Organization):
Harewood Hospital (Washington, D.C.)
Creator:
Bontecou, Reed B. (Reed Brockway), 1824-1907, photographer.
Subject (Genre):
Photographs
Subject (MeSH Term):
Military Personnel
Subject (MeSH Term):
Wounds, Gunshot
Subject (MeSH Term):
American Civil War
Subject (MeSH Term):
Thigh
Publication Information:
[Washington, D.C. : Harewood General Hospital], 1865.
Publication Country:
United States
Copyright Statement:
The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain.
Order No.:
B030330
Physical Description:
1 photographic print : albumen, b&w ; oval image 13 x 19 cm., on mount 26 x 31 cm.
Image Description:
Subject: View of the patient's midsection only. The patient lies on a bed, naked from the waist down, exposing the wounds.
Subject (Person):
White, John, Private.
Note (General):
Picture caption: John White, Private Co. A., 4th N.Y. Vols., age 19, was admitted to Harewood U.S.A. General Hospital, April 12th 1865, with gunshot wounds of the upper third of the left thigh ...
Note (General):
Part of a series of photographs and cases intended, at the behest of Surgeon General William Hammond, for publication in Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion (1870-1888).
Note (General):
Printed label ("6") and caption pasted on the mount.
Note (General):
NLM copy: the wounds are hand colored in red.
Language:
eng
Restrictions on Access:
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Call Number:
PP059703 no. 6a alb
Record UI:
101574218

John White R. B. Bontecou.

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