Patient with arm and hand in cast with large open area for wounds to arm

Patient with arm and hand in cast with large open area for wounds to arm

lantern slides

Greenough, Robert B. (Robert Battey), 1871-1937

World War, 1914-1918

Surgical plaster casts

Wounds and injuries

From a set of two boxes of lantern slides by Dr. Robert Battey Greenough, covering his service in 1915 with the First Harvard Unit and the American Ambulance in France during World War I.

Lantern slide taken in France during World War I, showing a patient in bed with his right arm in a cast that is mostly open to allow access to wounds, while staying stabilized by large metal supports.

Greenough, Robert B. (Robert Battey), 1871-1937

1917-1919, circa

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1 black-and-white lantern slide

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WAM 21245.086

Donated to the Warren Anatomical Museum by the estate of Dr. Robert Battey Greenough, 1937.