Platt, Harvey a machine readable transcription Susan C. Lawrence Kenneth M. Price Kenneth J. Winkle 2011 med.d1e12107 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 172 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 with depression discharged due to disabilities of serious nature resulting from injuries conoidal musket ball fractured skull vertigo and pain in head disability three-fourths wounds and injuries of the lower extremities 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 Harvey Platt, Co. A, 7th Indiana Volunteers, aged 25 years, was wounded at the battle of SpottsylvaniaSpotsylvania Court House, May 12th, 1864, by a conoidal musket ball which fractured the skull. In the same engagement, he received a wound of the right leg. He was admitted to the hospital of the 4th division, Fifth Corps; thence was sent to the Mount Pleasant hospital at Washington on the 16th, and was transferred, on the 18th, to McKim's Mansion Hospital, Baltimore. After several other transfers, he was finally admitted into hospital No. 4, at Madison, Wisconsin, on September 1st, 1864, and discharged from service on January 20th, 1865, and pensioned. Pension Examiner M. H. Harding states that the patient is disqualified for manual labor during the warm season, owing to vertigo and pain in the head, which seriously impair his health. He rates his disability three-fourths.