Title: Flavin, Edward H.

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), 239.

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 affectedgunshot fracture of anterior edge of occipital at crown of headremoval of fragments of boneconstant vertigopartial loss of memory

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e16130

TEI/XML: med.d1e16130.xml


FLAVIN, EDWARD H., First Lieutenant, Co. A, 14th New York State Militia. Spottsylvania​, May 8th, 1864. Gunshot fracture of anterior edge of occipital at crown of head. Corps, Washington, and New York hospitals. Removal of fragments of bone. Discharged June 6th, 1864. Examiner Charles Rowland, M. D., states, May 10th, 1865, that there is constant vertigo and partial loss of memory.