Contraman, J. a machine readable transcription Susan C. Lawrence Kenneth M. Price Kenneth J. Winkle 2011 med.d2e30771 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 M. Price Elizabeth Lorang Matthew Bosley The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. (1861-65.) Washington, DC Government Printing Office Part 2 Volume 2 1876 951 Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion wounds and injuries of the upper extremities wounds and operations of the forearm shot wounds of the forearm shot fractures of the forearm excisions in the continuity of the bones of the forearm for shot injury primary excisions in the shaft of the ulna, of the radius, or of both bones excisions in the shaft of the radius fatal cases after primary excision in the forearm excision in continuity of forearm followed by amputation gunshot fracture of forearm by minié ball excision from shaft of radius performed on the field gangrene forearm amputated at upper third pyæmia blessed added figure encoding added vaule to @key on name for Fairfax Hospital copied case from MSHWR, added proofing of transcription and encoding, identified keyword terms

CASE 1898.—Private J. Contraman, Co. G, 142d Pennsylvania, aged 20. was wounded at SpottsylvaniaSpotsylvania, May 11, 1864, and admitted to Fairfax Hospital, from a Fifth Corps field hospital, on the 16th. Surgeon D. P. Smith, U. S. V., noted: "Gunshot fracture of left forearm by a minié ball. Excision of three inches of radius performed on the field." On May 18th, the parts being in a gangrenous condition, Surgeon Smith amputated the forearm at the upper third. The patient was extremely irritable. The treatment consisted in the application of pimple dressings, followed by a solution of bromine. Death resulted, on May 27, 1864, from pyæmia following the amputation. The specimen, represented in the accompanying wood-cut (FIG. 690), was forwarded to the Museum by Dr. Smith. It consists of the lower two-thirds of the bones of the left forearm from which three inches of the radius were excised primarily. The age of the patient was probably overestimated.

FIG. 690.—Excision in radius. Spec. 3297.