Title: Libby, Samuel 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), 238.

Keywords:on special wounds and injuries of the headwounds and injuries of the headgunshot woundsgunshot fractures of the cranial bonesremoval of fragments after gunshot fractures of the skullrecovered after gunshot fractures of the skullforeign bodiesrecovery after removal of fragments of skull for gunshot fractureextraneous substances as cloth or felt or leather extracted with bone splinterssurvived with disabilities of various degrees, brain more or less seriously affectedfracture over vertex by conoidal musket ballleft leg partially paralyzedleft hemiplegiamental obtusenesssevere pain in the headdisability three-fourths, amenable to treatmentalmost recovered from paralysistemporary insanityepileptic fits

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e16091

TEI/XML: med.d1e16091.xml


LIBBY, SAMUEL B., Private, Co. B, 17th Maine, aged 23 years. Spottsylvania​, May 21st, 1864. Fracture over vertex by conoidal musket ball. Emory, Blackwell's Island, and Cony hospitals. Fragments removed; dura mater exposed; left leg partially paralyzed. Discharged December 15th, 1864. April 26th, 1865, Examiner D. O. Perry, M. D., reports complete left hemiplegia, mental obtuseness, and severe pain in the head, and rates the disability three-fourths and somewhat amenable to treatment. September 30th, 1867, Examiner T. A. Foster reports that this man, after recovering almost entirely from paralysis, had headache, temporary insanity, and epileptic fits.