Excerpt from North Carolina Medical Journal, Vol. 17: January, 1886 In furnishing the history of the following case I am permitted to rescue from partial oblivion an interesting case that has not escaped wholly the notice of our distinguished colleague at Washington in his official capacity of historian of the surgical records of our civil war, as I find that he has tabulated it among Excisions in Forearm of Uncertain Date, Vol. II. P. 964. This short history would have been published long since, had not my notes, supposed to have been lost, been accidentally discovered only recently; and at once reminded me of my indebtedness to a friend, Dr. H. D. Schmidt, now of New Orleans, who obtained the Specimen of bone from the soldier himself in whose possession it was; making at the time the beautiful drawing of arm and hand that accompanies this article. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.