CASE.—Corporal George W. Monk, Co. A, 78th New
York Volunteers, was wounded at the battle of
Chancellorsville, Virginia, May 3d, 1863, by a
conoidal ball, which fractured the right parietal
bone near its posterior superior angle. He fell to
the ground in a state of insensibility; when
consciousness returned he passed his finger into
the wound one or two inches. His left arm and both
of his legs were paralyzed. He remained on the
field for three days, exposed to a cold and
drenching rain without shelter, and was then
seized with convulsions. He was admitted to the
Log Hospital on May 6th, and on June 15th, sent to
the Armory Square Hospital, Washington. From time
to time, fragments of bone from both tables
escaped. About the end of June, hæmorrhage
occurred, probably from the middle meningeal
artery, but was arrested by plugging. It recurred
about four weeks later, but was again arrested. On
August 27th he was furloughed; on October 14th,
admitted to the Ladies Home Hospital, New York,
and on February 6th, 1864, discharged from
service. The paralysis had disappeared entirely,
except from his left arm, where it remained in a
slight degree. On March 26th, 1868, Pension
Examiner N. W. Leighton reports that the patient
was a helpless epileptic. There was abscess of the
brain and paralysis of the left arm, with morbid
excitability of the whole cutaneous surface. He
rates his disability total and permanent.