Title: Boyer, Jacob

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 cases of fracture of outer table of temporal bone, without sufficient detailsmissile entered in front and above external meatus, passed upward and inward, glanced downward to mastoid portion of temporal bone, lodged over mastoid processfractured external table of temporal boneconoidal musket ball removeddied a prisonerscurvy and diarrhœa

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e10192

TEI/XML: med.d1e10192.xml


CASE.—Private Jacob Boyer, Co. E, 11th Pennsylvania Volunteers, aged 33 years, was wounded at the battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, December 13th, 1862. The missile entered just in front and above the external meatus, passed a little upward and inward, and then glanced downward to the mastoid portion of temporal bone, fracturing in its course the external table, and lodging over the mastoid process. He was admitted to the hospital of the 2d division, First Corps, and on December 18th was sent to Harewood Hospital, Washington, where, in January, 1863, a conoidal musket ball was removed through an incision. On January 20th the wound had nearly healed, and on May 6th, 1863, the patient was returned to duty. This soldier was subsequently made a prisoner, and according to the certificate of Assistant Adjutant General S. Breck, died at Salisbury, North Carolina, January 31st, 1865, the cause of death not being stated. In the application for pension by the widow it is stated that he died "by reason of scurvy and diarrhœa."