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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), 204.

Keywords:on special wounds and injuries of the headwounds and injuries of the headgunshot woundsgunshot fractures of the cranial bonespenetrating gunshot fractures of the skullmissiles extracted from within the craniumprojectiles penetrated cranial cavity, even imbedded in substance of cerebral hemispherespenetrating gunshot fractures of the head terminated fatallypenetrating fracture of both tables of left parietal bone at anterior superior anglecoma, legs motionless, pupils dilated and fixedright eyelid ecchymosed, swelling in right temporal regionconvulsions

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e14445

TEI/XML: med.d1e14445.xml


CASE.— —— ——, was brought into the Prince Street Hospital, Alexandria, Virginia, May 14th, 1864, with a penetrating fracture of both tables of the left parietal bone at the anterior superior angle. He was comatose, passed urine involuntarily. He moved his arms freely; but the legs were motionless, the pupils dilated and fixed, and the right eyelid ecchymosed. A puffy swelling existed in the right temporal region. Convulsions supervened, and death ensued the same evening.