The international encyclopaedia of surgery; a systematic treatise on the theory and practice of surgery . Showing a conoidal musket-ball lodged in the spinalcanal between the eighth and ninth dorsal vertebra;.(Spec. 2939, Sect. I, A. M. M.) Showing gunshot fracture of the left transverse pro-cess and body of the seventh dorsal vertebra, with themissile in situ. (Spec. 3030, Sect. I, A. M. M.) tion of urine and traumatic pneumonia. A conoidal musket-ball iiad entered his backnear the inferior angle of the left scapula, and passing downward, inward, and forwardthrough the left lung, had fracture
The international encyclopaedia of surgery; a systematic treatise on the theory and practice of surgery . Showing a conoidal musket-ball lodged in the spinalcanal between the eighth and ninth dorsal vertebra;.(Spec. 2939, Sect. I, A. M. M.) Showing gunshot fracture of the left transverse pro-cess and body of the seventh dorsal vertebra, with themissile in situ. (Spec. 3030, Sect. I, A. M. M.) tion of urine and traumatic pneumonia. A conoidal musket-ball iiad entered his backnear the inferior angle of the left scapula, and passing downward, inward, and forwardthrough the left lung, had fractured tlie transverse process of the seventh dorsal verte-bra, and lodged in the body of the same. Owing to his extreme prostration, no anti- • Medical ami Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, First Surgical Vol., p. 440.« Ibid., p. 439. 778 INJURIES OF TUE BACK. Fig. 7^6. ^<ia:^. iililogistic measures of an active character were employed. Stimulating frictions wereJrtfiucntly applied to the legs and hips, and the chest was enveloped in an oil-skin jacket,lie died on the 19th, Necroscopy.—The hall was found imbedded in the body of theseventh dorsal vertebra, encroacliing upon the medulla spinalis, as represented in theaccompanying wood-cut (Fig. 785). Tlie lungs were hepatized at tiieir bases ; and,near their apices, were filled with a dark, frothy liquid. A colored soldier, aged about , was wounded at Brownsville, Texas, Januar} 28,1866, by a pistol-shot, and died in thirty-eight hours, from shock and internal hem-orrhage. Necroscopy showed that the missile hadentered two inches below and outside of the leftnipple, gouged its calibre from the upper border ofthe eighth rib, passed downward, inward, and back-ward, through the lower lobe of the right lung, thediaphragm, and the right lobe of the liver, and had L?S?^BIKQB lodged in the body of the last dorsal
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