GC.12910
Femur, distal portion of an adult left, showing a comminuted fracture involving the joint. From a soldier wounded at the battle of Waterloo (1815). The leg was torn off at the knee probably by a round shot. Fourteen days elapsed before he received any surgical attention. High amputation was necessary on account of extensive septic cellulitis.
Much of the bone posteriorly has been lost and only the anterior comminuted fragments remain and from this a fissure extends through the trochlea and the intercondylic notch separating the distal extremity into two equal parts while the lateral condyle is divided transversely by a subsidiary fissure. The distal end of the proximal fragment is smooth and white and appears necrotic.
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