Title: Beun, J. H.

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. (1861-65.), Part 3, Volume 2 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1883), 49.

Keywords:wounds and injuries of the lower extremitiesflesh wounds of the lower extremitiesshot flesh woundsshot wounds of lower extremities not attended by lesions of bones, joints, great vessels or nervescomplications of shot flesh wounds of the lower extremitiesligations of blood-vessels of the lower limbs after flesh woundsligations of the profunda arteryshot wound of thighbleeding from profunda artery

Civil War Washington ID: med.d2e3086

TEI/XML: med.d2e3086.xml


CASE 102.—Private J. H. Beun, Co. E, 45th Pennsylvania, aged 18 years, wounded at the Wilderness, May 6, 1864. Admitted into Campbell Hospital, Washington; shot wound of thigh. May 28th, bleeding to amount of forty-eight ounces from profunda artery; profunda ligated at one end in wound; hæmorrhage recurred June 14th, and death on the same day.