Coaltrap, James W. a machine readable transcription Susan C. Lawrence Kenneth M. Price Kenneth J. Winkle 2011 med.d1e15901 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 227-228 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 removal of fragments after gunshot fractures of the skull discharged and pensioned recovered after fragments of bone, fractured by gunshot projectiles, were removed patients remained on Pension Roll shell lacerated scalp over frontal bone constant severe headache nervous irritation, insomnia, violent vertigo partial paralysis mental obtuseness 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 James W. Coaltrap, Co. G, 174th Ohio Volunteers, aged 29 years, was wounded near Murfreesboro', Tennessee, December 7th, 1864, by a shell, which lacerated the scalp over the frontal bone. He was admitted to hospital at Murfreesboro', and in February, 1865, sent to Harewood Hospital, Washington, where he was discharged the service June 22d, 1865, and was afterward pensioned. On May 3d, 1869, Pension Examiner J. M. Todd reported this man to be suffering from constant severe headache, with a marked nervous irritation, insomnia, violent vertigo, partial paralysis, and mental obtuseness—all of which symptoms were on the increase.