——, —— a machine readable transcription Susan C. Lawrence Kenneth M. Price Kenneth J. Winkle 2011 med.d1e14445 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 204 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 penetrating gunshot fractures of the head terminated fatally penetrating fracture of both tables of left parietal bone at anterior superior angle coma, legs motionless, pupils dilated and fixed right eyelid ecchymosed, swelling in right temporal region convulsions 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.— —— ——, was brought into the Prince Street Hospital, Alexandria, Virginia, May 14th, 1864, with a penetrating fracture of both tables of the left parietal bone at the anterior superior angle. He was comatose, passed urine involuntarily. He moved his arms freely; but the legs were motionless, the pupils dilated and fixed, and the right eyelid ecchymosed. A puffy swelling existed in the right temporal region. Convulsions supervened, and death ensued the same evening.