Dicey, J. a machine readable transcription Susan C. Lawrence Kenneth M. Price Kenneth J. Winkle 2011 med.d2e17460 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 21883431 Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion wounds and injuries of the lower extremities wounds and operations in the leg shot contusions of the bones of the leg shot contusions of the tibia and fibula shot contusions of the bones of the leg followed by amputations fatal terminations of cases of amputation in the leg for shot contusions of the tibia or fibula flesh wound of left thigh contused wound by shell on fore part of middle of right leg gangrene tibia denuded of periosteum 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 668.—Private J. Dicey, Co. F, 17th Michigan, received a flesh wound of the left thigh and a contused wound by a shell on the fore part of the middle of the right leg, at Antietam, September 17, 1862. He entered Casparis Hotel Hospital, Washington, October 13th, with the latter wound in a gangrenous condition and the tibia denuded of periosteum for four or five inches. The best antiseptic remedies failing to check the spreading of the disease, the limb was amputated on October 21st, by Acting Assistant Surgeon L. Heard, some five or six inches below the knee. The patient was very feeble and failed to rally. He died October 24, 1862. The amputated bones of the leg were contributed to the Museum by the operator, and constitute specimen 212 of the Surgical Section, A. M. M.