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ArmyWashington, D.C.Government Printing OfficePart 1Volume 2187060Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellionon special wounds and injuries of the headwounds and injuries of the headmiscellaneous injuries of the headtrephiningkick from horsewound penetrated cranium at anterior inferior angle of parietal
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CASE.—Private Charles
V——, Signal Corps,
received, on February 24th, 1862, at
Georgetown, D. C., a kick from a horse; the sharp cork
of the shoe penetrating the cranium at the anterior inferior angle of the parietal
bone, driving fragments of the internal table inward, penetrating the dura mater and
rupturing the middle meningeal artery. He was seen by Acting Assistant Surgeon John S. Billings, six hours after the reception of the injury. He was
comatose, and presented the usual signs of compression of the brain from depressed
fracture. Dr. Billingsapplied the trephine and removed the
depressed fragments, and also about two ounces of coagulated blood. The
patient immediately came to his senses, and did well for four days, when symptoms of
cerebro-meningitis set in. The patient was then transferred to the Union Hotel
Hospital. Active treatment was unavailing, and death followed in two
days, or on March 2d, 1862. The autopsy
showed effusion of lymph over the whole of the right hemisphere of the cerebrum. A
portion of the cranium, showing the extent of bone removed, was contributed, with a
memorandum of the case, to the Army Medical
Museum by Dr. Billings. It is
represented in the adjacent wood cut, (FIG. 26.)