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Specimen 23

Civil war specimen

Femur. Stump showing a sequestrum partly covered by a conical involucrum.

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.

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