CASE.—Brazilla S. Cobb, Co. C, 10th Maine
Volunteers, aged 41 years, was wounded at the
battle of Cedar Mountain, Virginia, August 9th,
1862, as he was kneeling on his right knee to
discharge his gun. The missile, a small rifle or revolver ball, struck him in the mouth, driving in eight teeth, passed to base and outer side of
right tonsil, and lodged apparently in the deeper
muscles of the neck, in the region of the great vessels. He was admitted into the 2d division hospital at Alexandria, Virginia, August 12th, 1862, and transferred to Satterlee Hospital, Philadelphia. The treatment consisted of Dover's
powders, and local applications of equal parts of
chloroform and tincture of aconite, to the ear,
filling the outer ear with loose cotton, bathing
the surface of the face and head with croton oil.
He at first had profuse hæmorrhage from the right
ear as well as from the mouth, which recurred
several times, with inflammation of the tonsils
and fauces, accompanied by tenderness of the right
cheek, extending back to the anterior edge of the
trapezius. He suffered intensely from pain of the
right side of the face and ear, occasioning high
fever and arterial action, with intense pain in
the head. He was discharged from service December
30th, 1862, and pensioned, his disability being
rated one-half, and perhaps not permanent. Acting
Assistant Surgeon W. P. Morgan reports the
case.