CASE.—Sergeant A—— B——, Co. A, 5th Michigan
Volunteers, aged 24 years, was wounded at the
battle of Mine Run, Virginia, November 27th, 1863, by a conoidal ball, which fractured the
right side of the frontal bone just below the
temporal ridge. He remained in the field hospital
until the 4th of December, when he was
transferred to the 3d division hospital, Alexandria, Virginia, in a perfectly natural
condition. He continued so until the 8th, when the
skull was trephined. The ball had been removed on the
field. For forty-eight hours after the operation,
he was, at intervals slightly delirious; he
recovered at the end of that time, and continued
in full possession of his mental faculties until the 14th, when stupor and coma, supervened; he
died on the same day. The pathological specimen is
No. 2612, Sect. I, A. M. M. Fragments have been
removed from the cranium for a space measuring one
by one and one-fourth inches. The inner surface of
the edge of the opening is slightly cribriform.
There is no fissuring. The history and specimen
were contributed by Surgeon E. Bentley, U. S. V.