CASE.—Sergeant George R. Burroughs, Co. G, 12th
New Jersey Volunteers, aged 23 years, was wounded
at the battle of Cold Harbor, June 3d, 1864, by a
conoidal ball, which fractured the ramus of the
inferior maxilla. The missile entered at the
middle of the ramus on the right side, and emerged
below the angle on the left side, wounding the
lingual and facial arteries. He was, on June 15th,
admitted to Harewood Hospital, Washington.
Secondary hæmorrhage from the lingual and facial
arteries occurred June 17th, amounting to eighteen
ounces of blood. Hæmorrhage recurred on the 20th.
Free incisions were made in the course of the
wound, and coagulated blood and pus cleaned out
thoroughly; the hæmorrhage thereupon ceased. The
constitutional treatment throughout was
supporting. Died June 22d, 1864. Patient seemed to
have died from exhaustion superinduced by profuse
and protracted suppuration, rather than from the
immediate effects of the hæmorrhage. The case is
reported by Surgeon R. B. Bontecou, U. S. V.