E——, Frederick a machine readable transcription Susan C. Lawrence Kenneth M. Price Kenneth J. Winkle 2011 med.d1e16765 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 268 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 penetrated right parietal bone near superior border, emerged near junction of occipital and parietal bones complete paralysis of left arm, partial paralysis of left leg hernia cerebri general anesthesia, chloroform 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 Frederick E——, Co. M, 4th Pennsylvania Cavalry, aged 38 years, was wounded near Petersburg, Virginia, November 25th, 1864, by a conoidal ball, which penetrated the right parietal bone near the superior border and emerged near junction of the occipital and parietal bones. He was admitted to the hospital of the 2d division, Cavalry Corps, on December 1st; on the 9th, sent to the Cavalry Corps Hospital, Army of the Potomac , and on the 15th, transferred to the Armory Square Hospital, Washington. On December 18th, he was placed under chloroform and his skull trephined by Surgeon D. W. Bliss, U. S. V. The edges of the wound were brought together with straps, and the patient rallied well from the operation. During the following day he complained of pain in the head and was slightly delirious. On the morning of the 20th, he ate a hearty breakfast, then fell into a profound stupor, from which he never recovered. Complete paralysis of the left arm and partial paralysis of the left leg supervened; hernia cerebri also appeared, and death occurred on December 20th, 1864. The pathological specimen is No. 3516, Sect, I, A. M. M., and consists of a disk of bone from the parietal one inch in diameter. The specimen and history were contributed by Surgeon D. W. Bliss, U. S. V.