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 The following are responsible for particular readings or for changes to this file, as noted: AJ Howell 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 21883866 Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion wounds and complications pyæmia swelling of parotid glands metastatic abscesses of surface swelling of joints icteric skin and conjunctiva of eye profuse diarrhœa swelling of submaxillary, sublingual, and parotid glands shot fracture of knee amputation through lower thigh 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 1230.—Private J. F. Smith. Co. C. 61st New York, aged 17 years, received, at Barksville, Virginia. April 8, 1865, a shot fracture of the right knee. On the following day (April 9th) amputation through the lower third of the thigh was performed. He was treated in field hospital, and subsequently, on May 14th, he was admitted to Armory Square Hospital at Washington. The symptoms of the case are briefly noted on the bed-card by Acting Assistant Surgeon C. H. Brown: Metastatic abscesses of surface; swelling of joints; icteric tinge of skin and conjunctiva of eye; swelling of submaxillary, sublingual, and parotid glands; joints painful, chills, and change of chill to that of burning heat; profuse diarrhœa; nausea, headache, and delirium. Death on May 24, 1865, of pyæmia and exhaustion. No autopsy was made.