McDermott, Owen a machine readable transcription Susan C. Lawrence Kenneth M. Price Kenneth J. Winkle 2011 med.d1e13383 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 186 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 caries and necrosis caries or necrosis following gunshot injuries of cranial bones conoidal musket ball struck above eyebrow, slightly fractured frontal bone injury to periosteum, caries persisted in vicinity of wound wound maintained suppurative discharge 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 Owen McDermott, Battery K, 4th U. S. Artillery, aged 28 years, was wounded at the battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia, May 3d, 1863, by a conoidal musket ball, which struck about two inches above the left eyebrow, and slightly fractured the frontal bone. On May 17th, he was admitted to St. Aloysius Hospital at Washington. On October 17th, he was sent to Harewood Hospital, and was discharged on November 17th, 1863. He re-enlisted in Co. I, 8th New Jersey Volunteers, and, after the battle of Deep Bottom, Virginia, was conveyed from City Point to the Beverly Hospital, New Jersey, which he entered August 21st, 1864. On April 4th, 1865, he was transferred to the Satterlee Hospital at Philadelphia, and was discharged from service on July 19th, 1865. From injury to periosteum, slight caries exists in the vicinity of the wound, which maintains an almost constant suppurative discharge. In October, 1868, he was a pensioner.