Butler, Augustus J. a machine readable transcription Susan C. Lawrence Kenneth M. Price Kenneth J. Winkle 2011 med.d1e13709 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 190 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 remote results of depressed fractures necrosis of portions of outer table or of both tables of cranium, frequent results of gunshot fracture fractures of skull followed by forms of paralysis of motion conoidal musket ball fractured parietal bone at eminence paralysis of lower extremities, recovered partial control of muscles of leg 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 Augustus J. Butler, Co. A, 7th Maine Volunteers, aged 19 years, was wounded at the battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia, June 6th, 1864, by a conoidal musket ball, which fractured the parietal bone at the eminence. He was conveyed by steamer to Alexandria, and admitted, on the 14th, into the 3d division hospital. Paralysis of the lower extremities existed. Simple dressings only were applied. The patient recovered partial control of the muscles of the leg, and was discharged from service January 10th, 1865. Not a pensioner.