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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 21883594 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 secondary excisions at the ankle joint fatal secondary excisions at the ankle joint wound of foot caused by musket ball gunshot wound of leg, lower third missile entered above ankle joint, fractured tibia, lodged in head of astragalustalus lower tibia and head of astragalustalus excised 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 859.—Private T. Lister, Co. B, 20th Michigan, aged 26 years, was wounded at SpottsylvaniaSpotsylvania, May 12, 1864. Surgeon J. E. Pomfret, 7th New York Artillery, reported his admission to the field hospital of the 1st division, Second Corps, with "wound of foot caused by a musket ball." Surgeon R. B. Bontecou, U. S. V., who operated in the case, described the injury as a gunshot wound of the left leg, lower third, the missile fracturing the tibia, entering about one inch above the ankle joint, and lodging in the head of the astragalustalus. The wounded man was admitted to Harewood Hospital, Washington, May 26th. On July 5th sulphuric ether was administered, and the lower end of the tibia as well as the head of the astragalustalus, which had become necrosed, were excised. The constitutional state of the patient at the time of the operation was very poor; the tissues had become infiltrated with pus. Five days after the operation the fibula protruded and was somewhat necrosed, the parts otherwise progressing favorably. The treatment was supporting. The result was unfavorable. Death occurred on August 7, 1864.¹

¹ CULBERTSON (H.), Excision of the Larger Joints of the Extremities, in Trans. Am. Med. Association, 1876, Supplement to Vol. XXVII, p. 312.