Title: Hutchinson, William B.

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 nervessense of taste lost as well as sense of hearingmissile entered in front of external meatus, lodged in internal earlost sense of taste, suffered vertigohearing completely lost in injured ear

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e12902

TEI/XML: med.d1e12902.xml


CASE.—Sergeant William B. Hutchinson, Co. F, 12th New Jersey Volunteers, was wounded at Chancellorsville, Virginia, May 3d, 1863. The missile entered in front of the external meatus, and lodged in the internal ear. He was admitted to the hospital of the 3d division, Second Corps; on May 9th, was sent to Carver Hospital, Washington, and on June 27th, to South Street Hospital, Philadelphia, whence he was discharged the service, April 6th, 1865, and pensioned. The ball remained in the wound, and could be felt in its place of lodgment​. The sense of hearing was completely lost in the injured ear, and the patient had lost the sense of taste and suffered from vertigo.