Title: Conduri, I.

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), 81-82.

Keywords:wounds and injuries of the lower extremitieswounds and injuries of the hip jointshot fractures at the hip jointshot fractures at the hip joint unsuccessfully treated by conservationlimited to head of femur aloneball entered thigh at anterior middle third, passed upward and entirely through articulation of hip joint, lodged in body of sacrum

Civil War Washington ID: med.d2e4448

TEI/XML: med.d2e4448.xml


CASE 167.—Private I. Conduri, Co. D, 1st Michigan Cavalry, aged 22 years, was shot in the right thigh while on scout near Culpeper, April 24, 1864. He was admitted to the Third Division Hospital, Alexandria, whence Surgeon E. Bentley, U. S. V., reported: "The treatment consisted of water dressings, tonics, stimulants, and extra diet. The patient died June 11, 1864. The post-mortem showed that the ball entered the thigh at its middle third, on its anterior aspect, passed upward and entirely through the articulation of the hip joint, and lodged in the body of the sacrum."