Title: Wook, John M.

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 affectedshell fracture of frontal right of median lineremoval of fragments of bone, left brain pulsations visibledisability one-half and temporary

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e16136

TEI/XML: med.d1e16136.xml


WOOK, JOHN M., Private, Co. C, 107th Pennsylvania, aged 23 years. Fredericksburg, December 13th, 1862. Shell fracture of frontal, a little to the right of the median line. Washington and Philadelphia hospitals. January 25th, 1863, removal of fragments of bone, leaving brain pulsations visible. Discharged March 24th, 1863. January 2d, 1868, Pension Office reports his disability one-half and temporary.