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(1861–65.)Surgeon General Joseph K. Barnes, United States ArmyWashington, D.C.Government Printing OfficePart 1Volume 21870297Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellionwounds and injuries of the headhernia cerebri after gunshot fractures of the skullfungus cerebrifractured parietal bone at anterior superior angleautopsyblessedadded figure encodingadditional proofing of transcription and encodingcase text extracted and transformed from larger
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CASE.—Private Thomas
H——, Co. I, 56th Pennsylvania
Volunteers, aged 23 years, was wounded at the battle of Petersburg, Virginia, June 22d,
1864, by a conoidal ball, which fractured the right parietal bone at its anterior
superior angle. He was admitted to the 4th division, Fifth Corps, hospital, and thence
conveyed to Washington, and admitted, on July 1st, into the Finley Hospital. On the
4th, fragments of bone were removed from a space measuring two inches downward from
the sagittal suture by one in width. Two days
later, hernia cerebri appeared at the opening. The details of the further progress
of the case are not recorded, but death resulted on July 11th, five days after the appearance of the hernia and twenty days from the
date of injury. At the autopsy, the edges of the opening in the bone were found necrosed and
cribriform. The dura mater and parts of the cerebral substance in the vicinity were
congested and filled with coagulated blood. The specimen is figured in the wood-cut, and was
contributed, with the history, by Surgeon G. L.
Pancoast, U. S. V.