Boyer, Jacob a machine readable transcription Susan C. Lawrence Kenneth M. Price Kenneth J. Winkle 2011 med.d1e10192 Civil War Washington University of Nebraska–Lincoln Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
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 The following are responsible for particular readings or for changes to this file, as noted: Matthew Bosley Elizabeth Lorang Stacey Berry Elisabeth Tracey The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. (1861–65.) Surgeon General Joseph K. Barnes, United States Army Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office Part 1 Volume 2 1870 136 Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion on special wounds and injuries of the head wounds and injuries of the head gunshot wounds gunshot contusions of the cranial bones gunshot fractures of the external table of the cranium alone appearances and symptoms of skull fracture not defined with sufficient precision to permit accurate diagnosis alleged cases of fracture of outer table of temporal bone, without sufficient details missile entered in front and above external meatus, passed upward and inward, glanced downward to mastoid portion of temporal bone, lodged over mastoid process fractured external table of temporal bone conoidal musket ball removed died a prisoner scurvy and diarrhœa additional proofing of transcription and encoding, edited and added keyword terms additional proofing of transcription and encoding case text extracted and transformed from larger file enriched encoding validated file encoded initial checking of OCR text against PDF; encoded

CASE.—Private Jacob Boyer, Co. E, 11th Pennsylvania Volunteers, aged 33 years, was wounded at the battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, December 13th, 1862. The missile entered just in front and above the external meatus, passed a little upward and inward, and then glanced downward to the mastoid portion of temporal bone, fracturing in its course the external table, and lodging over the mastoid process. He was admitted to the hospital of the 2d division, First Corps, and on December 18th was sent to Harewood Hospital, Washington, where, in January, 1863, a conoidal musket ball was removed through an incision. On January 20th the wound had nearly healed, and on May 6th, 1863, the patient was returned to duty. This soldier was subsequently made a prisoner, and according to the certificate of Assistant Adjutant General S. Breck, died at Salisbury, North Carolina, January 31st, 1865, the cause of death not being stated. In the application for pension by the widow it is stated that he died "by reason of scurvy and diarrhœa."