Fractured Right Humerus- Proximal Portion, due to Gunshot Wound

Fractured Right Humerus- Proximal Portion, due to Gunshot Wound

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865

Osteopathic medicine

Gunshot wounds

Fracture

human remains

Inscription: "No. 152" written on the underside of the base in pencil; "6780." written on a small label adhered to the bone.

Proximal portion of a right humerus with a comminuted fracture held together with wires and springs, mounted on a black wooded base with a metal rod. Bone is from an unidentified man shot during the Civil War.

Unknown

Morrison, Paul (photographer)

Undated

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model

Bone, metal, wood

physical object

06780

Preparation was originally collected and mounted by the Army Medical Museum in Washington, D.C. The specimen appears as 152 in the 1863 Army Medical Museum catalogue. It was transferred to Jeffries Wyman between 1863 - 1874 and formerly resided in his museum. At his death in 1874 Wyman left the preparation to the Boston Society for Natural History who then transferred it to the Warren Anatomical Museum.