CASE.—Corporal Ludwig Schweitzer,
Co. E, 12th
New Jersey Volunteers, aged 23 years, was
wounded before Petersburg, Virginia, October 20th,
1864, by a conoidal musket ball which
fractured a portion of the frontal bone on the
right side. He was sent to the hospital of the 2d
division, Second Corps. On the 22d was sent to the
depot field hospital at City Point, and on December
15th was transferred to Washington, D. C.,
and admitted on the following day into the Finley Hospital.
The treatment so far as recorded was expectant. On
the 5th of
March, 1865, the patient was transferred to
the hospital at Beverly, New Jersey, thence was
sent on the 5th of April to the White Hall
Hospital, Bristol, Pennsylvania, and was
discharged the service May
17th, 1865, and pensioned, his disability
being rated total and permanent. Subsequent
information shows that the patient suffered
constant pain, vertigo upon slight exertion, and
epileptiform convulsions.