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(1861-65.)Washington, DCGovernment Printing OfficePart 3Volume 21883718Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellionwounds and complicationsshot woundseffect of missiles and projectiles on bony structurecontusions of boneshot wound of forearmball entered below inner condyle of humerus, traversed forearm obliquely downward and
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CASE 1062.—Captain James
Ferguson, Co. I, 4th Ohio, was admitted into
Seminary Hospital, Georgetown, December 20, 1862, with a shot wound of the left forearm, received at
Fredericksburg. Surgeon J.
H. Brinton, U. S. V., who examined this
officer's injury, reported: "A conical ball entered below the inner condyle of the humerus,
traversed the forearm obliquely downward and outward and split on the radius, one portion
emerging on either side." Four and one-half inches of the left ulna were removed by A. A. Surgeon H. W. Ducachet. Captain Ferguson was attacked with confluent small pox and removed to Kalorama Hospital, Washington, February 8, 1863. Acting Assistant
Surgeon R. J. Thomas, U. S. A. reported: "The
condition of the arm when admitted was bad; no disposition to heal, with strong gangrenous
tendency. He died February 15, 1863." Surgeon Brinton furnished a drawing of the divided missile,
which is copied in the wood-cut (FIG. 388).