Glazier, A. a machine readable transcription Susan C. Lawrence Kenneth M. Price Kenneth J. Winkle 2011 med.d2e16361 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 Sarah Synovec The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. (1861-65.)Washington, DCGovernment Printing OfficePart 3Volume 21883389 Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion wounds and injuries of the lower extremities wounds and injuries of the knee joint excisions at the knee joint for shot injury primary excisions at the knee joint fatal cases of primary excision of the knee joint shot fracture of knee joint wound of knee joint with fracture of external condyle patella removed at field hospital gangrene in stump general anesthesia, chloroform chloroform induced alarming symptoms, electricity resorted to recourse to amputation of thigh additional proofing of transcription and encoding, identified keyword terms case text extracted and transformed from larger file Enrich Encoding, Edit and validate Validated File initial checking of OCR text; encoded P5 Encoding

CASE 606.—Corporal A. Glazier, Co. B, 1st Minnesota, aged 29 years, was wounded at Ream's Station, August 25, 1864. Surgeon N. Hayward, 20th Massachusetts, reported the injury as a "shot fracture of the left knee joint," for which he performed excision at the field hospital of the 2d division, Second Corps. Surgeon D. W. Bliss, U. S. V., reported that the patient was admitted to the Armory Square Hospital, Washington, August 28th, in a low condition and suffering severe pain from nervous spasms of the limb, caused by a wound of the knee joint with slight fracture of the external condyle, the patella having been removed on the field. Circular amputation at the lower third of the thigh was performed by Acting Assistant Surgeon D. W. C. Van Slyck on the day after admission. Chloroform inhalation induced alarming symptoms, and electricity was resorted to. Opium and alcoholic and diffusible stimulants were administered. Gangrene appeared in the stump the second day and spread rapidly. Death resulted on September 2, 1864.