Roberts, W. a machine readable transcription Susan C. Lawrence Kenneth M. Price Kenneth J. Winkle 2011 med.d2e22401 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 21883591 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 excisions at the ankle joint for shot injury intermediary excisions at the ankle joint fatal intermediary excisions at the ankle joint ball passed backward, fractured external malleolus and opened ankle joint resection of ankle joint, excised lower articular extremities of tibia and fibula diarrhœa general anesthesia, ether 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 853.—Sergeant W. Roberts, Co. I, 7th New York Artillery, aged 35 years, was wounded in the left ankle, at Cold Harbor, June 10, 1864, by a conoidal ball, which passed from before backward, fracturing the external malleolus and opening the ankle joint. He entered Harewood Hospital, Washington, five days afterwards, at which time his constitutional state was very poor, the injured parts were in a very bad condition, and the wound discharged fetid pus. Resection of the ankle joint was performed on June 24th by Surgeon R. B. Bontecou, U. S. V., who exposed the articulation by incisions over the malleoli and excised the lower articular extremities of the tibia and fibula. Sulphuric ether was used. The patient did well up to July 1st. From that period diarrhœa set in and he gradually sank. There were no pyæmic symptoms. He died July 6,1864, from exhaustion. The history was reported by the operator.