Title: Welsh, P.

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. (1861-65.), Part 2, Volume 2 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1876), 959.

Keywords:wounds and injuries of the upper extremitieswounds and operations in the forearmshot wounds of the forearmshot fractures of the forearmexcisions in the continuity of the bones of the forearm for shot injuryintermediary excisions in the bones of the forearmfatal intermediary excisions in the forearmpyæmiawound of forearm by conoidal ball produced compound comminuted fracture of inferior third of ulnaexcision of shaft of ulna, ball extracted

Civil War Washington ID: med.d2e30653

TEI/XML: med.d2e30653.xml


CASE 1916.—Sergeant P. Welsh, Co. K, 28th Massachusetts, aged 32 years, was wounded at Spottsylvania​, May 12, 1864, and sent from a Second Corps field hospital to Washington, where Surgeon O. A. Judson, U. S. V., reported: "Admitted to Carver Hospital, May 14, 1864. Gunshot wound of left forearm, by a conoidal ball, producing compound comminuted fracture of inferior third of left ulna. On May 17th, Acting Assistant Surgeon J. S. Wentz excised three inches of the shaft of the ulna through a straight incision; no ligatures were applied; the ball was also extracted. The constitutional state of the patient at time of operation was good. On May 20th, secondary hæmorrhage occurred, apparently from the interosseous artery, but ceased spontaneously. On the 24th, rigors and other pyæmic symptoms appeared, and the patient died May 28th, 1864, from pyæmia." The specimen, represented in the adjoining wood-cut (FIG. 701), was contributed to the Museum by Dr. Judson. It consists of "four pieces of bone, representing three inches of the left ulna, excised; a conoidal ball, exceedingly battered, distorted, and grooved, is mounted with the specimen."

FIG. 701.—Pieces of left ulna excised for shot injury.—Spec. 2296.