P——, G.a machine readable transcriptionSusan C. LawrenceKenneth M. PriceKenneth J. Winkle2011med.d1e18309Civil War WashingtonUniversity of Nebraska–LincolnCenter for Digital Research in the
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CASE.—Corporal G.
P——, Co. H, 91st Pennsylvania
Volunteers, aged 28 years, was admitted to Emory
Hospital Washington, October 31st,
1864, for a gunshot wound of the face, received near South Side
Railroad, Virginia, October 27th. A
ball had entered the chin at the left side, passed inward and lodged beneath the angle of
the inferior maxilla, whence it was extracted through the mouth. The wound was dressed with
cold water, and a compress was applied to the jaw. On November 4th, secondary hæmorrhage occurred, which was arrested by plugging
the wound with sponges. The common carotid artery was tied in
the continuity, just above the omo-hyoid, by Surgeon N. R.
Moseley, U. S. V., for recurring
hæmorrhage on the 6th, and the patient
died from exhaustion on the evening of November 16th,
1864. The post-mortem examination revealed a firm clot in
the artery. A wet preparation, showing the extent of this formation, was contributed to the
Army Medical Museum by Acting
Assistant Surgeon W. H. Coombs, and is represented in the adjoining wood-cut (FIG. 179).