Gleason, D. H. a machine readable transcription Susan C. Lawrence Kenneth M. Price Kenneth J. Winkle 2011 med.d1e2715 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 Army Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office Part 1 Volume 2 1870 41 Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion on special wounds and injuries of the head wounds and injuries of the head miscellaneous injuries of the head falls severer contusions of the head, resulting from falls severe concussion of brain thrown from horse persistent pain in the head additional proofing of transcription and encoding, edited and added keyword terms additional proofing of transcription and 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.—Sergeant D. H. Gleason, Co. H, 1st Massachusetts Cavalry, aged 28 years, was thrown from his horse in a charge at Gettysburg, July 1st, 1863, and received a very severe concussion of the brain. He was sent to the hospital at the Cavalry Depot at Camp Stoneman, Washington. After recovering from the symptoms of concussion, he suffered from persistent pain in the head, and on March 7th, 1864, he was sent to Finley Hospital, Washington. He recovered, and returned to duty October 1st, 1864. The case is reported by the late Surgeon G. L. Pancoast, U. S. V.