French, Alexander a machine readable transcription Susan C. Lawrence Kenneth M. Price Kenneth J. Winkle 2011 med.d1e14686 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 211 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 perforating gunshot fractures of the skull fatal cases of perforating fractures of the skull conoidal ball passed laterally right to left through occipital bone, exited directly opposite wound of entrance 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.—Corporal Alexander French, Co. K, 3d Michigan Volunteers, was wounded at the battle of Mine Run, Virginia, November 27th, 1863, by a conoidal ball, which passed laterally from right to left through the occipital bone, traversing the substance of the brain four inches, and making its exit at a point directly opposite the wound of entrance. He was sent to the regimental hospital, and on December 4th, was transferred to the 2d division hospital, Alexandria, Virginia. Simple dressings were applied. The case terminated fatally on December 5th, 1863. The case was reported by Assistant Surgeon W. B. Morrison, 3d Michigan Volunteers.