Hicks, Lewis a machine readable transcription Susan C. Lawrence Kenneth M. Price Kenneth J. Winkle 2011 med.d1e5064 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 85 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 complications from intercurrent diseases typhoid fever, vs. state of exhaustion from irritative or traumatic fever conoidal ball struck temporal region, inflicted laceration of integument shell wound of second finger of left hand wounds and injuries of upper extremities shot wound of hand, treated by amputation, terminal phalanx removed eath from enteric fever pathognomonic ulceration of Peyer's glands, inflammation of intestinal canal autopsy performed 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 Lewis Hicks, Co. K, 6th New York Heavy Artillery, was wounded, in an engagement before Petersburg, Virginia, June 18th, 1864, by a conoidal ball, which struck the left temporal region, inflicting a laceration of the integument. He also received a shell wound of the second finger of the left hand. He was admitted to the hospital of the Second Division, Fifth Corps, where the terminal phalanx was removed. On July 2d, he was sent to the Slough Hospital, Alexandria, Virginia, where cold water dressings were applied to the scalp wound. Death occurred, from enteric fever, on July 10th, 1864. The autopsy revealed the pathognomonic ulceration of Peyer's glands, and extensive inflammation of the intestinal canal.