Newkirk, Ira B. a machine readable transcription Susan C. Lawrence Kenneth M. Price Kenneth J. Winkle 2011 med.d1e17095 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 292 Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion wounds and injuries of the head trephining after gunshot fractures of the skull general anesthesia, ether 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.—Corporal Ira B. Newkirk, Co. E, 5th Wisconsin Volunteers, aged 23 years, was wounded May 5th, 1864, at the battle of the Wilderness, Virginia, by a conoidal ball, which fractured and depressed the os frontis above the superciliary ridge. He was admitted into Judiciary Square Hospital, Washington, on the 11th. Two days later he was placed under ether, when Assistant Surgeon Alexander Ingram, U. S. A., made an incision one and a half inches in extent from the point of entrance, reflected the flaps, applied the trephine, and removed all the depressed bone, a portion of which was pressing on the dura mater. The parts were brought into apposition, and two sutures applied. The patient's constitutional condition was very good. Ice water dressings were applied, and saline cathartics administered. No untoward symptoms occurred, and on July 16th the patient was returned to his regiment. He was discharged July 30th, 1864. He is not a pensioner.