Hamilton, Frank D. a machine readable transcription Susan C. Lawrence Kenneth M. Price Kenneth J. Winkle 2011 med.d1e14071 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 197 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 penetrating gunshot fractures of the skull missiles extracted from within the cranium projectiles penetrated cranial cavity, even imbedded in substance of cerebral hemispheres conoidal musket ball apparently produced only scalp wound frontal bone fractured missile removed in period remote from the injury disability total and permanent 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.—Sergeant Frank D. Hamilton, Co. E, 28th Massachusetts Volunteers, aged 22 years, was wounded at the battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia, June 3d, 1864, by a conoidal musket ball, which apparently produced, only a scalp wound. He was sent to the hospital of the 1st division, Second Corps, thence was conveyed to Washington, and on the 7th, admitted to the Harewood Hospital. On June 16th, he was transferred to the Knight Hospital at New Haven, Connecticut, where it was discovered that the frontal bone had been fractured. The treatment throughout was of a simple character. In November, the patient was sent to the Dale Hospital, Worcester, Massachusetts; was discharged from service on the 3d of January, 1865, and pensioned, his disability being rated total and permanent. On March 5th, 1868, Pension Examiner C. L. Fisk, jr.Jr., reported that the ball had been extracted from the brain, but that the patient had been much prostrated ever since, and was growing worse.