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Excerpt from On Medical Provision for Railroads, as a Humanitarian Measure, as Well as a Source of Economy to the Companies: In Two Papers; Read Respectively Before the N. Y. State Medical Society, Feb. 5, 1862, and the Surgical Section of the New York Academy of Medicine, Oct. 28, 1862
Some two months since the author was called to see a poor fellow, whose leg was said to have been broken by a fall from the cars. He had been asleep, passed his destination, and, on going out half awake, was probably bewildered, and fell off the platform. He was found lying on a straw mattress, in an empty building used as a temporary barrack, on a bedstead improvised by means of an old door on a couple of barrels, and a blanket thrown over him. On examining the injured limb, the ankle-joint and bones for some inches above it proved to be fearfully crushed and exposed through a gaping lacerated wound seven or eight inches long. Expecting a simple case of fracture, some splints had been taken to the spot. No one would take such a case in, there were no facilities at hand, and the best that could be done for him, as happens in numerous similar cases, was to put up the limb as well as circumstances permitted, let him await the next train, and then forward him in the baggage car to one of the city hospitals, fifteen or sixteen miles distant.
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