Navy Nurse
![A navy nurse and a corpsman tend to a man with injured leg A navy nurse and a corpsman tend to a man with injured leg](/content/history/nhhc/our-collections/art/exhibits/conflicts-and-operations/wwii/navy-medical-art-of-the-abbott-collection/navy-nurse/_jcr_content/mediaitem/image.img.jpg/1486044910784.jpg)
An important function of the Navy nurse is to instruct hospital corpsmen. Here one nurse supervises the administration of an anesthetic, Pentothal Sodium, which is being given intravenously preparatory to resetting a patient's leg. On the man's thigh is a Roger Anderson fracture device, having pins to hold the bone in place. This patient, a Marine raider under treatment in a Navy mobile hospital unit in New Caledonia, was hit by a Japanese bullet that pierced both legs, fracturing the left thigh, and severing a nerve in his right leg.
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- World War II 1939-1945
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