McCabe, P. a machine readable transcription Susan C. Lawrence Kenneth M. Price Kenneth J. Winkle 2011 med.d2e21426 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 21883577-578 Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion wounds and injuries of the lower extremities wounds and operations at the ankle joint shot contusions of the ankle joint shot contusions of the bones of the ankle joint treated by conservation ball contused external malleolus abscess opened, bone exfoliated from external malleolus anchylosis of ankle joint, atrophy of leg 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 811.—Private P. McCabe, Co. G, 87th Pennsylvania, aged 23 years, was wounded in the left ankle, before Petersburg, June 23, 1864, by a musket ball, which contused the external malleolus. He was admitted to Stanton Hospital, Washington, eleven days after the injury, with the limb greatly swollen and intensely painful. An abscess was opened on July 10th, and three weeks later a thin narrow piece of bone, about one inch long, exfoliated from the external malleolus. Subsequently another small necrosed piece was removed, after which rapid and steady improvement began and the pain disappeared. About September 25th the patient began to walk on crutches.¹ He was mustered out of service October 13, 1864, and pensioned. The Pension Examining Board in September, 1877, report a "tender and adherent cicatrix, complete anchylosis of the ankle joint, and some atrophy of the leg. In walking he cannot bring the heel to the ground, but puts his weight on the front part of the foot." He was paid his pension in June, 1881.

¹ LlDELL (J. A.), On Contusion and Contused Wounds of Bone, with an Account of Thirteen Cases, in Am. Jour. Med. Sci's, 1865, N. S., Vol. L, p. 36.