sentinels of a realm
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Fig. 9. — Case XV. Shortly after pedicled graft operation
(cropped to square; levels 20 1.00 255)
Robert H. Ivy (1881-1974 *). “Ununited fractures of the mandible. ”
Annals of Surgery 71 (January-June, 1920) : 363-376
University of Minnesota copy, digitized October 4, 2013
Figures 6 through 14 are (beautiful) sciagraphs of cases listed here. No scan available via archive.org at this time. All injuries were gunshot fractures of the mandible, sustained in 1918; all operations took place 1919.
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“Dark encrustations covered overhangs and protuberances, sucking up the light. The spectral shapes of several rotting oaks and eucalypti reached from the darkness on the lights ’ periphery, malevolent sentinels of a realm more macabre than sanity would or could accept.”
Jerry Earl Brown. Under the City of Angels (1981) : 232-235
tags:
eucalyptus; sciagraphy; skiagraphy
J. E. Brown, Under the City of Angels (1981); R. H. Ivy, “Ununited fractures” (1920)