Title: Kenney, M.

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), 315.

Keywords:injuries of pelvisinjuries of parts contained in the pelvisgunshot wounds of bladderwounds of the rectumstercoral fistulæ after shot wounds of the rectumshot in street affrayball entered buttock and passed through rectum, emerged in inner femoral regionragged wound in rectum near anusfæcal matter passed by orifice in thighwound-track in thigh dilated with compressed sponge to promote elimination of fragments from ischium

Civil War Washington ID: med.d2e35070

TEI/XML: med.d2e35070.xml


CASE 912.—Private M. Kenney, Co. K, 2d Cavalry, aged 27, was shot in a street affray at Washington, September 19, 1861. He was taken to the E Street Infirmary. Medical Cadet E. R. Hutchins recorded¹ that a pistol ball entered the left buttock, passed through the rectum, and emerged in the inner right femoral region. The finger introduced in the rectum discovered a ragged wound about three and a half inches from the anus. Fæcal matter passed by the orifice in the thigh. On September 22d, the sphincter was divided; but fæces continued to pass by the wound in the thigh until October 4th, when the natural evacuations took place, with great relief. The wound-track in the thigh was unavailingly dilated with compressed sponge to promote elimination of fragments from the ischium, and on February 19, 1862, an incision was made and some pieces of necrosed bone were removed. Assistant Surgeon S. H. Storrow, U.S. A., reports that this man recovered completely, and was discharged July 9, 1862.


¹ HUTCHINS (E. R.), Boston Med. and Surg. Journal, 1862, Vol. LXV, p. 255, Vol. LXVI, p. 113.