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(1861–65.)Surgeon General Joseph K. Barnes, United States
ArmyWashington, D.C.Government Printing OfficePart 1Volume 21870159-160Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellionon special wounds and injuries of the headwounds and injuries of the headgunshot woundsgunshot contusions of the cranial bonesgunshot fractures of both tables of the skulllinear or capillary fissurelinear fissure with very slight depression of the inner tablegunshot wound of forehead, probably by musket ball, caused little external
injurytyphoid feverlinear fissure of frontal bone, fracture of internal plate with necrosis
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CASE.—Private Francis
B——, Co. A, 10th Vermont
Volunteers, aged 40 years, was wounded in one of the engagements at the
crossing of the Rapidan River, Virginia, in
May, 1864, in the forehead by a
gunshot missile, probably a musket ball, which caused only very little external
injury. He was admitted to the Baptist Church, 3d division, Sixth Corps Hospital, at
Fredericksburg, thence conveyed to Washington, and admitted May 26th into the Lincoln Hospital, being then extremely prostrated. No serious injury to
the head was suspected, but an attack of typhoid fever was anticipated, the tongue
being somewhat coated. The intellect was unimpaired. He seemed to improve and was
soon able to leave the ward. He continued so for two or three days when he again
took to his bed, complaining of slight pain in the head, but manifesting no
aberration of mind. Coma and subsultus tendinum supervened; discharge of blood and
pus from the right, and pus only from the left, ear occurred, and death ensued on
June 6th, 1864. At the autopsy a
slight linear fissure of the frontal bone was observed, and on removing the calvariacalvarium a fracture of the internal plate and necrosis to the extent of
three-fourths by one and a fourth inches was found to exist; including within its
limits part of the posterior wall of both frontal sinuses, in which some half a
drachm of pus had formed. The brain in the region of the fracture was softened. The
adjoining wood-cuts (FIGS. 67 and 68) showsshow the linear but slightly depressed fracture which existed over the right
superciliary ridge, and a portion of the fragment of the internal table which was
detached. The frontal sinuses are unusually capacious; the walls are very thin. The
specimen and notes of the case were contributed by Assistant Surgeon J. C. McKee, U. S.
A.