Title: Howell, William 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), 213.

Keywords:on special wounds and injuries of the headwounds and injuries of the headgunshot woundsgunshot fractures of the cranial bonescrash or smashdepressed skull fractures produced by cannon balls or by explosion of large shells, commonly comminution and disjunction of suturesremarkable case, patient survived a fortnightshell fractured and tore away nearly all of left parietal bonestupor, able to swallow food and stimulantsone-third of the left cerebral hemisphere sloughed

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e14728

TEI/XML: med.d1e14728.xml


CASE.—Private William W. Howell, Co. G, 11th Pennsylvania Reserves, was wounded at the battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, December 13th, 1862, by a shell, which fractured and tore away nearly all of the left parietal bone. Though in a state of stupor, he was able to swallow food and stimulants. He was treated at a field hospital for nine days, and then was conveyed, on a hospital transport steamer, to Washington, and admitted to Lincoln Hospital on December 23d, at which time about one-third of the left cerebral hemisphere had sloughed. Nearly all the brain sloughed away before his death, which occurred on December 26th, 1862. Surgeon Henry Bryant, U. S. V., recorded the case.