Title: Polley, S. H.

Source text: Surgeon General Joseph K. Barnes, United States Army, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. (1861–65.), Part 1, Volume 2 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1870), 136.

Keywords:on special wounds and injuries of the headwounds and injuries of the headgunshot woundsgunshot contusions of the cranial bonesgunshot fractures of the external table of the cranium aloneappearances and symptoms of skull fracture not defined with sufficient precision to permit accurate diagnosisalleged gunshot fracture of outer plate of frontal boneinjured by conoidal musket ballexfoliation from side of frontal bonedizziness and headache caused by exposure or exertionvision of one eye impaired

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e10077

TEI/XML: med.d1e10077.xml


CASE.—Corporal S. H. Polley, Co. H, 4th New York Heavy Artillery, aged 21 years. Petersburg, Virginia, June 23d, 1864. Conoidal musket ball. Treated at Harewood and Rochester hospitals. Discharged July 7th, 1865. Pensioned. Pension Examiner Eli F. Hendrich reports, March 25th, 1867, that there was an exfoliation from the right side of the frontal bone, that the vision of the right eye was impaired, and that dizziness and headache was caused by slight exposure or exertion.