Title: Murphy, Owen

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 parietal bone near coronal sutureremoval of pieces of boneconstant vertigodisability one-fourth and temporary

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e16142

TEI/XML: med.d1e16142.xml


MURPHY, OWEN, Private, Co. A., 6th New York Cavalry. Chancellorsville, May 3d, 1863. Gunshot fracture of parietal bone, near coronal suture. Washington and Baltimore hospitals. Removal of pieces of bone March 7th, 1864. Discharged July 9th, 1864. Examiner J. T. Burdick, M. D., reports, May 18th, 1867, that there is constant vertigo. Disability one-fourth and temporary.