Title: Neuman, A.

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), 10.

Keywords:injuries of the abdomeninjuries of the abdominal wallscontusions and wounds of the abdominal parietescomplications of parietal woundshæmorrhagelacerated wound of abdominal walls in hypogastric and iliac regionsrecurring hemorrhages from wound

Civil War Washington ID: med.d2e31475

TEI/XML: med.d2e31475.xml


CASE 34.—Private A. Neuman, Co. A, 49th New York, aged 38 years, received a lacerated wound of the abdominal walls in the hypogastric and left iliac regions, from a fragment of shell, at Spottsylvania​, May 18, 1864. He was treated at the field hospital and at Washington till May 27th. He was then transferred to the Summit House Hospital at Philadelphia. A few days after admission, recurring hemorrhages from the wound took place, and were treated by cold applications, styptics, and compresses confined by a bandage. The patient finally sank from loss of blood, and died on June 23, 1864.