Perry, W. H. a machine readable transcription Susan C. Lawrence Kenneth M. Price Kenneth J. Winkle 2011 med.d2e21725 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: Kenneth Winkle 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 21883583 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 fractures of the bones of the ankle joint shot fractures of the bones of the ankle joint treated by conservation pyæmia gunshot fracture of tibia and fibula, flesh wounds of both lower extremities, wound of thorax fibula transversely fractured in lowest fourth, anterior tibia shattered into ankle joint 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 829.—Private W. H. Perry, Co. C, 1st Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, aged 39 years, received a gunshot fracture of the right tibia and fibula, also flesh wounds of both lower extremities, and a wound of the thorax, at Spottsylvania Spotsylvania , May 19,1864. He entered Lincoln Hospital, at Washington, three days afterwards, where he died of pyæmia May 30, 1864. The history, with the pathological specimen (No. 4580), represented in the accompanying cut (FIG. 335), was contributed to the Museum by Assistant Surgeon J. C. McKee, U. S. A. The specimen consists of the greater portion of the bones of the right leg, showing the fibula to be transversely fractured in the lowest fourth and the anterior portion of the tibia shattered into the ankle.

FIG. 335.—Tibia shattered into the right ankle joint.—Spec. 4580.