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 The following are responsible for particular readings or for changes to this file, as noted: Kenneth M. Price AJ Howell 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 21883392 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 intermediary excisions at the knee joint fatal instances of intermediary excision at the knee joint ball fractured and comminuted patella erysipelas blessed added figure encoding 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 617.—Private O. Derocher, Co. I, 1st Maine Heavy Artillery, aged 31 years, was wounded in the right knee, at Spottsylvania Spotsylvania , May 19, 1864, by a conoidal musket ball, which fractured and comminuted the patella. Three days after the reception of the injury he was admitted to Emory Hospital, Washington, the soft parts about the knee being badly swollen. On May 23d, the inner half of the patella was excised by Surgeon N. R. Moseley, U. S. V. The operation was followed by cold-water dressings. By May 30th erysipelas had invaded the limb, for which carron oil and copper wash was applied, and tincture of iron was administered. Stimulants and generous diet were allowed liberally. The patient died from the effects of constitutional irritation and exhaustion, June 10, 1864. The history and the excised bone (FIG. 241), consisting of two fragments (Cat. Surg. Sect., 1866, p. 363, Spec. 1065), were contributed by the operator.¹

¹ See also CULBERTSON (H.), Excision of the Larger Joints of the Extremities, in Trans. Am. Med. Assoc., Philadelphia, 1876. Supplement to Vol. XXVII, p. 188, Case 11.

FIG. 241.—The inner half of the right patella, in two fragments. Spec. 1065.