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CASE.—Private Charles C——, Co. H, 30th North
Carolina Regiment, aged 30 years, received, at the battle of the Wilderness, May 7, 1864,
a gunshot wound of the face. The missile entered the left temple, passing obliquely
anteriorly, and emerging one inch below the left eye, severely fracturing and comminuting
the superior maxilla, and completely destroying the nasal bones. He was among the captured
wounded sent on hospital transports to Washington, and on May 14th was admitted to Carver
Hospital. He was very low, and in a comatose state, requiring considerable exertion
to arouse him sufficiently to partake of food and stimulants, which were freely
administered. He took a quart of milk punch daily. Detergent lotions were applied to the
wound. The contents of the left orbit were evacuated, and the vision was destroyed in the
right eye. Inflammation gradually extended to the brain; but without any very violent
symptoms. The patient survived twenty days, death resulting May 27th, 1864. Acting Assistant Surgeon J.
E. Winants reported the case and sent the specimen, figured in the wood-cut (FIG. 156), to the Army Medical
Museum. The right malar, the bodies of both superior maxillaries, both lachrymal
bones, the body of the ethmoid, with the turbinated bones, the left great ala of the
sphenoid, and the left external angular process of the frontal with the orbital plate have
been carried away. The left parietal is fissured from the anterior inferior angle to the
parietal eminence. The left palate bone is fractured across, the sphenoid cells are exposed,
and the cranial cavity is freely opened. The edges of the fractured bones are slightly
necrosed and show traces of an attempt at repair.