S——, George a machine readable transcription Susan C. Lawrence Kenneth M. Price Kenneth J. Winkle 2011 med.d1e18574 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: Kenneth Winkle AJ Howell 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 ArmyWashington, D.C.Government Printing OfficePart 1 Volume 21870425 Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion wounds and injuries of the spine incised wounds, contusions, and miscellaneous injuries incised wounds stabbed with knife in the back paraplegic blessed added figure encoding 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 George S——, Co. B, 15th New York Engineers, was admitted to Armory Square Hospital, Washington, on April 22d, 1863, having been stabbed with a knife in the back, at Falmouth, Virginia, on the 20th. He was completely paraplegic; the urine had to be drawn off by the catheter, and nothing but croton oil, in three-drop doses, succeeded in producing a passage three days after admission, two days after which, involuntary defecation and micturition set in. Sphacelus on all the projecting parts of the lower part of the body soon followed, proceeding rapidly until it nearly reached the spine of the sacrum. On May 10th, chills came on and recurred daily; death ensued on May 26th from exhaustion. The fourth, fifth, and a portion of the sixth dorsal vertebræ, sawn longitudinally to exhibit the blade of the knife, which appears to have been broken off at the time of injury and remains fixed in the specimen, are numbered 1160 of the Surgical Section, and were contributed to the Army Medical Museum by Assistant Surgeon C. C. Byrne, U. S. A. See adjoining wood-cut (FIG. 188).

FIG. 188.—Fourth, fifth, and a portion of the sixth dorsal vertebrae, sawn asunder to exhibit a dirk which traversed the spinal canal. Spec. 1160, Sect. I, A. M. M.