Title: Strauss, Abraham

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), 178.

Keywords:on special wounds and injuries of the headwounds and injuries of the headgunshot woundsgunshot contusions of the cranial bonesgunshot fractures of both tables of the skullgunshot fractures of both tables of the cranium with depressiondisabilities following depressed gunshot fracturesdisorders of nerves of special sense followed depressed gunshot fractures of skulllesions or functional derangements of the optic nervesgunshot fracture of the parietal boneimpaired vision after depressed fractures of the craniumvertigo and impaired sight in one eyevalvular disease of the heartdisability total and permanent

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e12610

TEI/XML: med.d1e12610.xml


CASE.—Private Abraham Strauss, Co. C, 31st New York Volunteers, was admitted, on October 31st, 1862, to Camp Banks, near Alexandria, Virginia, with a gunshot fracture of the parietal bone. He was discharged the service November 29th, 1862, and pensioned. Subsequently to the patient's discharge, Pension Examiner E. Bradley reports him suffering from vertigo and impaired sight in the left eye, also valvular disease of the heart, and rates his disability total and permanent.