Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Images from the History of Medicine (NLM)
Title:
Joseph B. Kendall
Contributor (Organization):
Army Medical Museum (U.S.)
Subject (Genre):
Photographs
Subject (MeSH Term):
Wounds, Gunshot
Subject (MeSH Term):
Military Personnel
Subject (MeSH Term):
Femoral Fractures
Subject (MeSH Term):
American Civil War
Publication Information:
[Washington, D.C. : Surgeon General's Office, Army Medical Museum, 1867]
Publication Country:
United States
Copyright Statement:
Copyright status must be investigated before publishing or commercial use.
Order No.:
B030337
Physical Description:
1 photographic print : albumen, b&w ; image 22 x 17 cm., on mount 31 x 26 cm.
Image Description:
Subject: The subject stands, facing the camera. To ihs right is a waist-high mirror that shows the wound from the exit of the musket ball.
Subject (Person):
Kendall, Joseph B.
Note (General):
Picture caption: Photograph 187. Successful excision of a portion of the shaft of the right femur for gunshot fracture. In the assault upon the heights of Fredericksburg by General Sedgewick's command, May 3, 1863, Sergeant Joseph E. Kendall, Co. K, 5th Wisconsin Volunteers, was struck by a musket ball, which split upon the shaft of the right femur ...
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 ("12") and caption pasted on the mount.
Language:
eng
Restrictions on Access:
HMD provides access to digital images in lieu of originals when electronic copies exist. Access to originals may require advance notice. Please see HMD Reference Librarian for more information.
URL:
Call Number:
PP059703 no. 12 alb
Record UI:
101579311

Joseph B. Kendall

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