S——, William E. a machine readable transcription Susan C. Lawrence Kenneth M. Price Kenneth J. Winkle 2011 med.d1e11384 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: Kenneth Winkle AJ Howell 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 163 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 both tables of the skull gunshot fractures of both tables of the cranium without depression splitting of bullets upon cranial bones bit of lead clipped off, fissure with trifling depression produced struck by musket ball on forehead fragment of lead impacted near centre of body of frontal bone plate of inner table detached on three sides and driven inward at free edges meningitis blessed corrected typo in figure head added figure encoding 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.—Corporal William E. S——, Co. F, 84th Pennsylvania Volunteers, aged 25 years, was struck at the battle of the Wilderness, May 5th, 1864, by a musket ball on the forehead, a little to the left of the median line. He was taken to the third division field hospital of the Second Corps, and was thence sent to City Point, and transferred on a hospital transport to Washington, and on May 16th admitted to Mount Pleasant Hospital, Washington, D. C., and on May 27th sent to Chester Hospital, Pennsylvania. The wound was discharging sanious matter, and was much inflamed and painful. There was considerable fever, which increased on the 29th. On the following day the patient became delirious, and died on May 31st, 1864, from meningitis. The pathological specimen, which is represented in the adjoining wood-cuts, (FIG. 72 and FIG. 73,) consists of the body of the frontal bone, with a fragment of lead impacted near the centre and to the left of the median line. An ovoid plate of the external table, measuring one by two inches, is slightly discolored, and surrounded by a groove of demarcation, external to which the bone is cribriform. A plate of the inner table, measuring one square inch, is detached by three of its sides, and driven inward to the depth of two lines at its free edges. Two fissures, each one and a fourth inches in length, run backward and outward, and there is a slight deposit of new osseous material on the inner surface. The specimen was contributed by Surgeon T. H. Bache, U. S. V.

FIG. 72.—Exterior view of a frontal bone contused by a bullet, and having a fragment of lead impacted under the outer lamina. Spec. 2523, Sect. I, A. M. M.
FIG. 73.—Interior view of the preceding specimen, showing the depression of the vitreous table.