Record of Patient 2146 at the Harvard University Service,
American Ambulance Hospital, June 1915.

Record of Patient 2146 at the Harvard University Service,
American Ambulance Hospital, June 1915.

American Ambulance Hospital.

Medicine, Military.

Surgery, Military.

World War, 1914-1918.

Over 2000 detailed records of patients treated by the Harvard Unit at Neuilly have been preserved along with photographs and X-rays. Patient 2146 had a perforating shrapnel wound of the upper right arm followed by gas gangrene--the first such patient treated by the Harvard unit personnel, according to Elliott Carr Cutler's journal. Cutler amputated the right arm below the shoulder; the patient survived the surgery but died several days later of cardiac failure.

American Ambulance, Harvard Unit, Records, nos. 206-2248, 1915.

1915-06

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1 typewritten page.

English.

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E 4, v. 9

Gift of Dr. Robert B. Greenough to the Library of Harvard Medical School, 1917.