Title: R——, J. H.

Source text: Surgeon General Joseph K. Barnes, United States Army, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. (1861–65.), Part 1, Volume 2 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1870), 431-432.

Keywords:wounds and injuries of the spinegunshot wounds of the spinefractures of the cervical vertebraefractured claviclefractured scapulafractured transverse processes of third and fourth cervical vertebraeinfiltration of blood in tissues of neck and mediastinumautopsy performedball entered near inferior angle of scapula, passed through the left clavicle, behind the scaleni muscles, and lodged behind symphysis of inferior maxillafractured anterior border, neck, and coracoid process of scapulafractured outer and middle thirds of claviclefractures of transverse processes of third and fourth cervical vertebræ, laying bare vertebral artery and opening sheath of carotid

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e18698

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CASE.—Sergeant J. H. R——, Co. H, 11th Pennsylvania Reserves, was wounded at Fredericksburg, Virginia, December 13th, 1862. The ball entered near the inferior angle of the scapula, fracturing the anterior border, neck, and coracoid process; it then passed through the left clavicle, causing a fracture of the outer and middle thirds; then behind the scaleni muscles, carrying away the transverse processes of the third and fourth cervical vertebræ, laying bare the vertebral artery, opening the sheath of the carotid, and finally lodged behind the symphysis of the inferior maxilla. He was conveyed to Washington, and, on December 16th, admitted to Carver Hospital. Death resulted on December 22d, 1862. The autopsy revealed great infiltration of blood in the cellular tissues of the neck and in the mediastinum. The pathological specimens, consisting of the fractured clavicle and scapula, with the third, fourth, and fifth cervical vertebræ, are numbered 640, 641, and 901, Surgical Section, Army Medical Museum, and were contributed, with a history of the case, by Surgeon O. A. Judson, U. S. V.