Title: Mattox, Charles S.

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), 255.

Keywords:on special wounds and injuries of the headwounds and injuries of the headgunshot woundsgunshot fractures of the cranial bonesremoval of fragments after gunshot fractures of the skullfatal cases of gunshot fractures of the skull treated by the removal or elevation fragmentstreated by operation, not by formal trephiningextent of injury ascertained with precision, organic alterations accurately observedconoidal ball fractured and depressed left parietal bone

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e16453

TEI/XML: med.d1e16453.xml


CASE.—Private Charles S. Mattox, Co. H, 12th Pennsylvania Reserves, aged 20 years, was wounded at the battle of Spottsylvania​ Court-house, Virginia, May 10th, 1864, by a conoidal ball, which fractured and depressed the left parietal bone. He was brought to the Emory Hospital, Washington, on the 13th, in an almost senseless condition. On the 18th, Surgeon N. R. Moseley, U. S. V., removed the depressed bone and applied cold water dressings. The patient revived and continued to improve until the 21st, when he suddenly relapsed into a comatose condition, and died on the following day. The history was contributed by Surgeon N. R. Moseley, U. S. V.