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21883650Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellionmiscellaneous injuriessimple and compound fracturesfracture of scapula, humerus, and forearm; railroad accidentrun over by city passenger railroad carpre-existing enlargement of thyroid glandpassed bloody urineright humerus comminuted, also radius and ulna of each forearmleft anterior ribs all broken except twelfth, posteriorly same ribs fractured except the
first, second, and twelfthlung laceratedleft scapula transversely fractured below spine, left clavicle fractured at acromial
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CASE 966.—Fracture of scapula, humerus, and
forearm; railroad accident.—John Gazell, a
laborer of the Commissary Department, U. S. A., aged 36 years, was run over by a city
passenger railroad car at Washington, August 10, 1863, and died at Douglas Hospitalone hour after the accident. Acting Assistant Surgeon J. E. Smith made the following report of the injury:
"Everything to alleviate his sufferings was done that could be, but the man did not react from
the shock in the least. At the autopsy a tumor was observed on the right side of the throat
which was supposed to have resulted from the injury, but on cutting down upon it I discovered it
to be a pre-existing enlargement of the thyroid gland. A section of the tumor displayed fatty
degeneration of the greater part with two sacs, each containing about one-half ounce of
sero-sanguinolent fluid. The left inferior portion of the tumor was ossified. Previous to his
death the patient had passed bloody urine which could not be satisfactorily accounted for, the
kidneys, ureter, and bladder being found apparently uninjured. The right humerus was comminuted,
as were also the radius and ulna of each forearm. On the left anterior side the ribs were all
broken except the twelfth, and the lung was considerably lacerated; posteriorly the same ribs
were fractured except the first, second, and twelfth. The left scapula was transversely
fractured below its spine and the left clavicle at its acromial extremity." The injured scapula
(FIG. 364, Spec. 1631), humerus (Spec. 1786), and both bones of both forearms (FIGS. 363, 365, Spec. 1784 of the Surgical
Section of the Museum), were contributed by Assistant Surgeon W. Thomson, U. S. A., and are represented in the adjoining wood-cuts. The left radius and
ulna show an oblique fracture at the junction of the upper thirds, the superior fragments being
wanting, while in the right radius a nearly transverse fracture exists in the lower part of the
middle third and longitudinal fractures occupy the lower fragment. The lowest third of the right
ulna is comminuted.