McCoy, Ellsby a machine readable transcription Susan C. Lawrence Kenneth M. Price Kenneth J. Winkle 2011 med.d1e20080 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 21870567 Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion wounds and injuries of the chest operations on the chest excisions excisions of portions of the ribs excision or removal of portions of the ribs ball entered chest, fractured fourth rib, lodged in axilla fractured rib resected general anesthesia, chloroform 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 4.—Corporal Ellsby McCoy, Co. D, 20th Maine Volunteers, aged 19 years, was wounded at Poplar Grove Church, Virginia, September 30th, 1864, by a conoidal ball, which entered the chest on the left side, fractured the fourth rib, and, glancing, lodged in the axilla on the same side. He was taken to the field hospital of the Fifth Corps, and, on October 7th, was transferred to Lincoln Hospital, Washington. On October 20th, Assistant Surgeon J. C. McKee, U. S. A., administered chloroform and extracted the ball through an incision made along the border of the lattissimus dorsi muscle; the end of the fractured rib was also resected. The patient was discharged from service March 23d, 1865. He is not a pensioner.