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"CASE 242. Private D. M. Noe, Co. C, 4Gth Ohio, aged 22 years, was wounded at the battle of Shiloh, Tennessee, April
6, 1852, by a conoidal musket ball, which shattered the neck of the left femur. The patient was placed on board the hospital
transport steamer Lancaster, under the charge of Surgeon George C. Blackman, U. S. V. On April 16, 1862, chloroform having
been administered, Dr. Blackman made a longitudinal incision four inches in length over the trochanter, and excised the head,
neck, and trochanters, together with three inches of the shaft of the femur, the diaphysis being divided by a common amputa
ting saw. The patient reacted well after the operation, and for five days the symploms progressed favorably. Pyasmia was
subsequently developed, and death ensued on April 24, 1862, eight days after the operation. " - The medical and surgical history of the war of the rebellion, (1861-65), Barnes
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