Private John Parkhurst, Company E, Second New York Heavy Artillery 1865 Reed Brockway Bontecou American Union Private Parkhurst received a gunshot wound to the head at Farmville, Virginia, in the final weeks of the Civil War. The ball fractured the upper portion of the soldiers front bone, and he was removed to Harewood Hospital. Dr. Bontecous printed notes on the reverse of his card-mounted teaching photograph reveal that Parkhurst was fifty years old and that after treatment at the hospital his health progressed favorably. “Doing well,” Bontecou observed. The portrait is a good example of how at times the surgeon used enlargements to bring attention to a specific wound and its treatment. In this case, studying his patient from above, he also created a sublime document of medical recovery and human introspection.. Private John Parkhurst, Company E, Second New York Heavy Artillery 266768

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$Private John Parkhurst, Company E, Second New York Heavy Artillery 1865 Reed Brockway Bontecou American Union Private Parkhurst received a gunshot wound to the head at Farmville, Virginia, in the final weeks of the Civil War. The ball fractured the upper portion of the soldiers front bone, and he was removed to Harewood Hospital. Dr. Bontecous printed notes on the reverse of his card-mounted teaching photograph reveal that Parkhurst was fifty years old and that after treatment at the hospital his health progressed favorably. “Doing well,” Bontecou observed. The portrait is a good example of how at times the surgeon used enlargements to bring attention to a specific wound and its treatment. In this case, studying his patient from above, he also created a sublime document of medical recovery and human introspection.. Private John Parkhurst, Company E, Second New York Heavy Artillery 266768$

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