Doyle, Patrick a machine readable transcription Susan C. Lawrence Kenneth M. Price Kenneth J. Winkle 2011 med.d1e4603 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 80 Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion on special wounds and injuries of the head wounds and injuries of the head gunshot wounds gunshot wounds of the scalp gangrene death of thin layer of tissue, spreading gangrene sloughing after gunshot wounds of scalp, terminated fatally fragment of shell caused wound of scalp 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.—Private Patrick Doyle, Co. D, 117th New York Volunteers, aged 36 years, was wounded before Petersburg, Virginia, June 15th, 1864, by a fragment of shell, which caused a wound of the scalp. He was treated, for some days, in a field hospital, and thence, on June 24th, transferred to the Mount Pleasant Hospital, Washington, D. C., and, on June 27th, sent to the Satterlee Hospital, Philadelphia. Gangrene attacked the wound, and the patient died on July 30th, 1864.