Simms, William T. a machine readable transcription Susan C. Lawrence Kenneth M. Price Kenneth J. Winkle 2011 med.d1e12335 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 175 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 gunshot fracture of cranial bones accompanied by hemiplegia or paraplegia conoidal musket ball penetrated mastoid process of temporal bone, seriously injured internal ear, left small external opening speechless, intellect greatly impaired fracture of mastoid process of temporal bone partial paralysis of left side of face, partial hemiplegia of right side 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.—Lieutenant William T. Simms, 82d New York Volunteers, was wounded at the battle of the Wilderness, Virginia, May 6th, 1864, by a conoidal musket ball, which penetrated the mastoid process of the left temporal bone and seriously injured the internal ear, leaving a small external opening. The missile, which was removed on the field, had become elongated. He was admitted to the hospital of the 2d division, Second Corps, and on May 16th, was sent to Washington for treatment. Until the latter date, he had been speechless; his intellect was greatly impaired. He partially recovered; on June 25th, was transferred to the 59th New York Volunteers as Major; April 18th, 1865, was mustered out of service. The wound was still open, and there was partial paralysis of left side of face, and partial hemiplegia of right side.