Lincoln Grandchildren & G-Grandchildren

[Eva Elisabeth]

Roger, the photo is too blurred for me, too, to determine.
Without antibiotics the French doctors couldn't have done anything real curative further, the immune system had to fight this out alone. Most likely (if the cause was anthrax), the surgery was a death verdict, but he might have died without, too. If it was straphs, just cutting the carbuncle open as I posted above (i.e. without tearing out all they did) might have helped. But I think the surgery secured his death.