Title: Wilder, R. W.

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), 180.

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 auditory nervesgunshot fractures of temporals, partial or total deafness resultedfracture of mastoid process of temporal bonegunshot flesh wound of right side of abdomen, near terminal costal cartilagesconoidal musket ball passed from behind through mastoid process and conchadeafness of right ear

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e12869

TEI/XML: med.d1e12869.xml


CASE.—Private R. W. Wilder, Co. H, 7th New York Volunteers, was wounded at Fredericksburg, December 13th, 1862, by a conoidal musket ball which passed from behind forward through the mastoid process and the concha. He also received a wound in the right side of the abdomen, near the terminal costal cartilages. The patient was conveyed to the hospital of the 1st division, Second Corps, where cold water dressings were applied. On December 20th he was sent to Lincoln Hospital, Washington, and on January 17th, 1863, was transferred to the Howard Hospital. He recovered, except from the deafness of the right ear, and was returned to duty on April 11th, 1863.