/medicalmuseum/taxonomy/term/19/all en /medicalmuseum/exhibits/warbones/specimens/specimen23 <p><img alt="Civil war specimen" style="width: 233px; height: 500px;" class="media-element file-original " src="/medicalmuseum/files/medicalmuseum/23_0.jpg" width="1014" height="2174" /></p> <p><b>Femur.</b> Stump showing a sequestrum partly covered by a conical involucrum.</p> <p>The tibia were fibula were fractured around the knee joint by a rifle ball on November 28, 1863. The patient was admitted to the hospital December 4 and amputation was performed December 15. He died January 6, 1864.</p> Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:41:04 +0000 joan.omalley@mcgill.ca 416 at /medicalmuseum /medicalmuseum/exhibits/warbones/specimens/specimen25 <p><img alt="25 civil war specimen" style="width: 539px; height: 320px;" class="media-element file-original " src="/medicalmuseum/files/medicalmuseum/25_0.jpg" width="2675" height="1587" /></p> <p><b>Tibia/Fibula.</b> Lower leg amputation.</p> <p>Ankle was fractured at Cold Harbour on June 3, 1864. The patient was admitted to the hospital June 7 and an amputation was performed June 9. He died July 10 from "exhaustion".</p> Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:41:03 +0000 joan.omalley@mcgill.ca 410 at /medicalmuseum /medicalmuseum/exhibits/warbones/amm <p><br /> </p><div class="image-caption-container"><img title="The " style="height: 250px; width: 500px;" class="file-original " src="/medicalmuseum/files/medicalmuseum/images/warbones-armymedical-banner.jpg" width="400" height="200" alt="" /><div class="image-caption">The 'Old Red Brick' Army Medical Museum and Library, Washington, D. C. - U. S. - National Library of Medicine</div></div><br /> Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:41:02 +0000 joan.omalley@mcgill.ca 383 at /medicalmuseum /medicalmuseum/exhibits/warbones/specimens <p><img alt="banner specimen donated by the Army Medical Museum" height="153" width="732" class="media-element file-original no-float" src="/medicalmuseum/files/medicalmuseum/banner_specimen.jpg" /></p> Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:41:02 +0000 joan.omalley@mcgill.ca 381 at /medicalmuseum /medicalmuseum/exhibits/warbones <div><em>The carnage of the American Civil War...<br /> Fire at the Æ»¹ûÒùÔº Faculty of Medicine...<br /> Unconventional verse of the mid-19th century...<br /> A worldwide association of pathologists...<br /> A celebrated library...</em><br />  </div> <p>This seemingly disparate group of events and institutions and the individuals associated with them—including William Hammond, Maude Abbott, Walt Whitman, James Carroll and William Osler—are in fact linked in a complex series of associations that extend from the 1860s to the beginning of the 20th century to the present time.</p> Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:41:02 +0000 joan.omalley@mcgill.ca 378 at /medicalmuseum /medicalmuseum/introduction/history <p><img alt="Image of Medical faculty c1895 with quote"The organized museum is to general pathology what the autopsy room is to medicine, what the dissection room is to anatomy, what—to go further afield—traveling to see new countries is to the study of geography." Maude Abbott. The Museum in Medical Teaching. Journal of the American Medical Association. 1905" height="390" width="920" class="file-original no-float" src="/medicalmuseum/files/medicalmuseum/introduction_hisory.jpg" /></p> Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:41:02 +0000 joan.omalley@mcgill.ca 379 at /medicalmuseum /medicalmuseum/exhibits/warbones/civilwarmedicine <p style="text-align:right"> </p> <p></p><div class="image-caption-container"><img title="Union soldiers prepare for a battlefield operation. - National Archives" style="width: 500px; height: 250px;" class="file-extra-large " src="/medicalmuseum/files/medicalmuseum/styles/wysiwyg_extra_large/public/images/warbones-civilwarmed-banner.jpg?itok=fLzj7UFt" width="400" height="200" alt="" /><div class="image-caption">Union soldiers prepare for a battlefield operation. - U.S.A. National Archives</div></div> Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:41:02 +0000 joan.omalley@mcgill.ca 384 at /medicalmuseum