Brown, Alexander a machine readable transcription Susan C. Lawrence Kenneth M. Price Kenneth J. Winkle 2011 med.d1e4979 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 82-83 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 hæmorrhage, hemorrhage secondary hemorrhage from wounds of scalp fatal termination conoidal musket ball entered in front of ear, passed downward and backwards, emerged below occiput hemorrhage from occipital artery 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 Alexander Brown, Co. B, 14th New York State Militia, aged 33 years, was wounded at the battle of the Wilderness, Virginia, May 8th, 1864, by a conoidal musket ball, which entered in front of the left ear, passed downward and backwards, and emerged about one inch below the occiput. He was admitted into the field hospital of the Fourth Division, Fifth Army Corps, on the same day, and a few days later sent to Alexandria, and was admitted, on May 12th, to the Second Division Hospital. Simple dressings were used. On May 19th, hæmorrhage took place from the occipital artery, and, though temporarily checked, the arterial bleeding recurred on the 20th, and, on the 21st, about thirty-eight ounces of blood were believed to have been lost altogether. Compression and astringents were the measures unavailingly employed. The patient died on May 21st, 1864. The case is reported by Surgeon T. Rush Spencer, U. S. V.