P——, Willard a machine readable transcription Susan C. Lawrence Kenneth M. Price Kenneth J. Winkle 2011 med.d1e16717 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 conoidal ball fractured and depressed right parietal bone near sagittal suture general anesthesia, chloroform ball fractured and depressed parietal bone near sagittal suture 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 Willard P——, Co. I, 120th New York Volunteers, aged 18 years, was wounded near Hatcher's Run, Virginia, March 25th, 1865, by a conoidal ball, which fractured and depressed the right parietal bone near the sagittal suture. He was, on the same day, taken to the hospital of the 3d division, Second Corps, and thence conveyed to Washington, and admitted to the Emory Hospital, on the 5th of April. On the following day, he was placed under the influence of chloroform, and Surgeon N. R. Moseley, U. S. V., trephined and elevated the fractured portion of the parietal bone. Cold water dressings and compresses were applied, enemas administered, and nutritious diet ordered. On the 13th, the patient was apparently doing well, but death supervened on April 17th, 1865, from exhaustion. The pathological specimen is No. 4074, and shows a disc and two fragments of bone from the right parietal. The fragments are chiefly from the inner table, and include one-half square inch of surface. The specimen and history were contributed by Surgeon N. R. Moseley, U. S. V.