Bradley, Thomas a machine readable transcription Susan C. Lawrence Kenneth M. Price Kenneth J. Winkle 2011 med.d1e13162 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 184 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 fractures of the cranial bones depressed gunshot fracture of cranial bones intra-cranialintracranial abscesses following depressed gunshot fractures of skull conoidal musket ball fractured and depressed frontal bone at median line, lodged under aponeurosis abscess between dura mater and brain near seat of fracture extravasation of fluid into ventricles 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 Thomas Bradley, Co. B, 6th New Hampshire Volunteers, aged 43 years, was wounded at the battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia, June 3d, 1864, by a conoidal musket ball which fractured and depressed the frontal bone at the median line and lodged under the aponeurosis. He was admitted on the 7th into the 1st division hospital at Alexandria, where the missile was extracted on the 13th. Death resulted on June 23d, 1864. The autopsy revealed an abscess between the dura mater and the brain, near the seat of fracture, and on section a considerable extravasation of fluid was found in the ventricles. The case is reported by Surgeon E. Bentley, U. S. V.