1587. About 2 in. of the tibia and a portion of the fibula re- moved from a stump nine months after amputation. Bones rounded at the end ; sawed open, and look healthy ; end of tibia closed.
From a woman, set. fifty years ; the stump had been troublesome for six months. (Hospital, 81, 129.) 1859.
Dr. II. J. Bigelow.
1588. The same, showing the rounding of the bones twenty weeks after amputation. (Hospital, 95, 116.) 1861.
Dr. H. J. Bigelow.
1589. About 2 in. of the tibia and fibula, removed by Dr. B. The patient was a man, twenty-three years of age, who had had his leg amputated during the Civil War. The stump did not heal for a long time, was very painful, and he had never been able to wear an artificial leg. Feb. 12th, 1868, he entered the hospital (134, 180), with much pain at the end of the stump, and a firm attachment of the cicatrix to the ends of the bones at that part. On pressure between the ends of the bones, the limb was instantly thrown into violent convulsions. A year previously a sequestrum had been removed. On the day of his admission the bones were removed, and on the llth of March the man was dis- charged well. The tibia is enlarged, and, besides the usual appearances of chronic inflammation, shows upon the inner surface a considerable cavity that must have contained the sequestrum. The two bones are anchylosed at the lower ex- tremities. Prepared by Mr. B. B. Kent, one of the house- pupils. 1869. Dr. H. J. Bigelow.
1590. The same, one and three-quarter years after amputation, and prepared by Mr. J. L. Hale, Jr., one of the house-pupils. The bones are small and firmly anchylosed at the rounded extremity. (Hospital, 131, 144.) 1867.
Dr. H. J. Bigelow.
1591. Upper 3 in. of the tibia, with the fibula, after amputation. Ends rounded. 1868.
1592. The same, five and a half months after amputation of the leg for a wound.
From a soldier, set. twenty-five years. (Hospital, 112,
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