U.S.A. General Hospital,
Davids’ Island, New York,
Feb 20th, 1863.
General,
I send by today’s mail the histories of all the interesting surgical cases that I have been able to collect since the establishment of this Hospital, the preparation of which I undertook at the request of Surg. Simons, U.S.A. The morbid specimens accompanying the cases are few in number, owing to the fact that the man, who formerly had charge of the dead house, stole the majority of then, when he was discharged from the Hospital. Means were taken to have the man arrested, but they proved unavailing. Prof. James R. Wood, however, has some of these specimens in his museum, and I have written to him regard to them, but have received no answer. The box containing the remainder of the preparations will be expressed to you on Monday inst.
I am, General, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
S.W. Gross,
Surgn U.S.V.
Brig Genl. W.A. Hammond,
Surgeon General, U.S. Army
92 1046
94 1047
279 1048
No comments:
Post a Comment