B——, Thomas a machine readable transcription Susan C. Lawrence Kenneth M. Price Kenneth J. Winkle 2011 med.d1e18807 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 M. Price 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 21870439 Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion wounds and injuries of the spine gunshot wounds of the spine fractures of the dorsal vertebræ spinal meningitis gunshot injury of one dorsal vertebra fractured transverse process of dorsal vertebra membranes of spine showed intense inflammation and ulceration necropsy performed 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 Thomas B——, Co. F, 122d Ohio Volunteers, aged 37 years, received a gunshot wound of the back, at the Wilderness, May 6th, 1864; the ball entered over the transverse process of the dorsal vertebra and lodged in the bone. He was sent to Washington, and admitted, on the next day, to Mount Pleasant Hospital. On May 15th, he was transferred to Jarvis Hospital, Baltimore, where he died on July 20th, 1864, from spinal meningitis. At the necropsy, the ball was found to have struck the body and fractured the transverse process of the dorsal vertebra. The bone was necrosed. The membranes of the spine, for two inches above and below the injury, showed unequivocal marks of intense inflammation and ulceration. The pathological specimen was contributed, with a history of the case, by Acting Assistant Surgeon B. B. Miles, Curator of Jarvis Hospital. It consists of a portion of the spinal cord, partially disorganized, as represented in the adjoining wood-cut (FIG. 191).

FIG. 191.—Segment of spinal cord ulcerated after injury. Spec. 3190, Sect. I. A. M. M.