B——, Josepha machine readable transcriptionSusan C. LawrenceKenneth M. PriceKenneth J. Winkle2011med.d1e14769Civil War WashingtonUniversity of Nebraska–LincolnCenter for Digital Research in the Humanities319 Love LibraryUniversity of Nebraska–LincolnLincoln, NE 68588-4100cdrh@unlnotes.unl.edu2011
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Kenneth M. PriceAJ HowellMatthew BosleyElizabeth LorangStacey BerryElisabeth TraceyThe Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion.
(1861–65.)Surgeon General Joseph K. Barnes, United States
ArmyWashington, D.C.Government Printing OfficePart 1Volume 21870214Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellionon special wounds and injuries of the headwounds and injuries of the headgunshot woundsgunshot fractures of the cranial bonescrash, smash, or ecrasementdepressed skull fractures produced by cannon balls or by explosion of
large shells, commonly attended by comminution and disjunction of
suturesother obviously fatal comminution of cranium by gunshot projectilesabscess over right eye opened in middle of upper lid, pus and fragments of
bone freely dischargedlarge abscess in anterior left hemisphere of brainfragment of shell entered centre of frontal bone, passed around left side
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CASE.—Private Joseph
B——, Co. D, 17th
Massachusetts Volunteers, was wounded near New Berne,
North Carolina, September 1st,
1862, by a fragment of shell which entered about the centre of the
frontal bone, passed around the left side of the head, and emerged near the
temporo-frontal suture. He was admitted to the Douglas Hospital, Washington, on September 5th, 1862, being partially conscious, with the right eye
closed and greatly swollen. The skull between the two apertures felt soft. On
September 10th, an abscess over the right eye opened about the middle of the upper
lid, and pus and a few fragments of bone were freely discharged. On September 13th,
the patient became comatose, and died on September 16th, 1862. At the autopsy, a large abscess was found in the
anterior lobe of the left hemisphere. The pathological specimens are Nos. 236 and
514. The former shows a section of the cranium with an extensive comminuted fracture
of the frontal bone a little to the left of the median line; the latter a wet
preparation of the encephalon, with perforation of the dura mater, and abscess in
the upper part of the anterior lobe of the left half of the cerebrum. The specimens
were contributed by Assistant Surgeons W.
Webster and J. W. Williams, U. S. A., respectively. The calvariacalvarium is represented in the wood-cut, (FIG. 111.) It
is very thin.