John A. Octerlong, M.D.
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Former Faculty
Members Louisville Medical College
Former
faculty
members of the Department
of Pharmacology
and
Toxicology
Octerlong,
John
A.,
M.D.1870-1874, Professor of Materia
Medica
and
Therapeutics,
and
Clinical
Medicine
Congressional record for Freedmen: A hospital was established in this
city early in July last for the adm'saion of the indigent sick refugees
and freed men of the whole Sta'e. A dispensary was also established in
Louisville during the month of August for the distribution of medicine
to the same cbu-s in this city. Both of these institutions are ander the
supervision of Brevet Major F. 8. Town, assistant surgeon United State«
army, who is assisted by Dr. R. A. Bell,
contract surgeon in charge of the hospital,and Dr.
John A. Octerlong,
also a contract surgeon, in charge of the dispensa y, who visits
freedmen outside of the hospital who apply to the dispensary lor medical
attendance. Number of patients admitted into the hospital 304
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From the Medical and Surgical
History:
CASE
169.---Corporal John J. English, 5th Indiana Battery, was wounded at
Murfreesboro', December 31, 1862, by a musket ball, which entered the
left inguinal region. He was taken to the field hospital of the 2d
division. Fourteenth Corps. The situation of the ball could 'not be
determined, but, from the absence of grave symptoms, Surgeon J. L. Teed,
38th Illinois, hoped that the missile had not penetrated the peritoneal
cavity, and, on January 5, 1863, the patient was sent to Nashville. Here
Surgeon Charles Schuessler, 6th Indiana, recorded the wound of the left
groin as severe and probably penetrating. Still there were no very grave
symptoms, and, on the 18th, the patient was transferred to Louisville,
to Hospital No. 8. Acting Assistant Surgeon
Octerlong describes the wound as severe and
situated in the ]eft inguinal region; but gives no particulars of the
progress or incidents of the case, which terminated fatally, July 28,
1863, no notes of an autopsy being preserved. Medical Inspector
Hamilton, however, states (Am. Med. Times, Vol. VII, p. 186) that "the
ball escaped from the rectum on the fortieth day," that it was "a
conical ball, which entered just below and in front of the anterior
superior spinous process of the ilium, on the left side," and that "when
I saw Corporal English he was in bed, the wound in front had closed, but
matter continued to discharge by the rectum. His bowels were regular;
but he was obliged to urinate often, and urination was attended with
some pain. His health was steadily improving, and there was but little
reason to doubt his final and complete recovery. The ball, which he
showed me, was a little battered."
(The personal edited research
notes of Michael Echols, the source of which may or
may not be completely documented)
