S——, Gottleib a machine readable transcription Susan C. Lawrence Kenneth M. Price Kenneth J. Winkle 2011 med.d1e16365 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 251 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 fatal cases of gunshot fractures of the skull treated by the removal or elevation fragments treated by operation, not by formal trephining extent of injury ascertained with precision, organic alterations accurately observed conoidal musket ball fractured frontal bone at coronal suture behind left frontal eminence ball and fragments of bone removed, left dura mater exposed left cerebral hemisphere congested injured part of corpus callosum contused, resembled boiled chocolate erysipelas extravasation of blood within cranium, dura mater beneath injury covered with blood clots autopsy performed 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 Gottleib S——, Co. E, 122d New York Volunteers, was wounded at the battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia, June 4th, 1864, by a conoidal musket ball, which fractured the frontal bone at the coronal suture, just behind the left frontal eminence. He was admitted to the hospital of the 1st division, Sixth Corps, and on June 7th, sent to Lincoln Hospital, Washington. On the following day, the ball and fragments of bone were removed, leaving the dura mater exposed. On June 9th, erysipelas supervened, and death occurred on June 10th, 1864. On opening the scalp at the autopsy, one and a half ounces of blood exuded; the dura mater beneath the injury was firmly covered with blood clots; the left hemisphere of the brain was much congested, and the injured part down the corpus callosum so much contused as to resemble boiled chocolate. The pathological specimen is No. 2539, A. M. M. The opening in the bone is an inch in diameter, the amount of the vitreous table removed being the greater. The ball is traversed by a broad, deep groove from point to base. The specimen was contributed by Assistant Surgeon J. C. McKee, U. S. A.