Lyon, Zeba S. a machine readable transcription Susan C. Lawrence Kenneth M. Price Kenneth J. Winkle 2011 med.d1e20000 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 ArmyWashington, D.C.Government Printing OfficePart 1 Volume 21870556-557 Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion wounds and injuries of the chest operations on the chest ligations ligations of the axillary ligations of branches of the axillary hæmorrhage from circumflex artery fractures of right scapula and fourth rib ball lodged in lung secondary hæmorrhage 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 Zeba S. Lyon, Co. I, 17th Vermont Volunteers, aged 20 years, was wounded at Petersburg, Virginia, April 2d, 1865, by a conoidal ball, which fractured the middle and anterior border of the right scapula and the fourth rib, passed into the lower lobe of the right lung, and lodged. He was taken to the field hospital of the Ninth Corps, and, on April 6th, was transferred to Slough Hospital, Alexandria. Light cold-water dressings and stimulants were used until April 14th, when hæmorrhage occurred from a small branch of the circumflex artery, which was ligated at the time. On the 16th, hæmorrhage recurred from a deeper branch. Several minor branches of the circumflex artery were cut down upon and ligated by Surgeon Edwin Bentley, U. S. V. The patient lost in all about twenty ounces of blood. Nourishment and stimulants were administered. Death resulted on April 21st, 1865. The necropsy revealed the course of the ball. The lower lobe of the right lung had undergone decomposition; the upper lobe was congested.