Norton, Edward a machine readable transcription Susan C. Lawrence Kenneth M. Price Kenneth J. Winkle 2011 med.d1e16705 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 266 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 trephining after gunshot fractures of the skull trephining practiced, fatal termination shell fractured right parietal bone symptoms of effusion hernia cerebri, protruding hernia removed 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 Edward Norton, Co. I, 39th New Jersey Volunteers, aged 21 years, was wounded at Petersburg, Virginia, April 2d, 1865, by a shell which fractured the right parietal bone. He was conveyed to the field hospital of the 2d division, Ninth Corps, thence sent to City Point, Virginia, where he remained until the 6th, when he was conveyed to the Fairfax Seminary Hospital, Virginia. No symptoms of compression existed. The external wound was one and a half inches in length and had a bad appearance. Water dressings were applied and beef tea ordered. On the 8th, the patient's appetite tailed, deglutition became difficult, and symptoms of effusion appeared on the following day. Surgeon D. P. Smith, U. S. V., applied the trephine and removed a portion of the cranium and several fragments, greatly relieving the symptoms. The patient talked better and answered questions correctly. Hernia cerebri was first noticed on the morning of the 11th, and on the 12th, a slight hæmorrhage occurred. Coma followed; the protruding hernia was removed, but death ensued on April 14th, 1865. The case is reported by Surgeon David P. Smith, U. S. V.