Title: Phillips, David

Source text: Surgeon General Joseph K. Barnes, United States Army, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. (1861–65.), Part 1, Volume 2 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1870), 138.

Keywords:on special wounds and injuries of the headwounds and injuries of the headgunshot woundsgunshot contusions of the cranial bonesgunshot fractures of the external table of the cranium aloneappearances and symptoms of skull fracture not defined with sufficient precision to permit accurate diagnosisalleged fractures of outer table of parietal bonesinjured by conoidal musket ball

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e10460

TEI/XML: med.d1e10460.xml


CASE.—Corporal David Phillips, Co. D, 149th Pennsylvania Volunteers, aged 20 years. Spottsylvania​, Virginia, May 8th, 1864. Conoidal musket ball. Treated at Douglas and Pittsburg​ hospitals. Returned to duty September 23d, 1864. Not on Pension List.