Title: McKatheran, Martin

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), 240.

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 skull at vertexremoval of fragments of boneconstant vertigo

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e16163

TEI/XML: med.d1e16163.xml


McKATHERAN, MARTIN, Private, Co. I, 32d Massachusetts. Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862. Gunshot fracture of skull at vertex. Corps and Washington hospitals. Removal of fragments of bone. Discharged February 21st, 1863. Examiner George Stevens, M. D., reports, October 15th, 1866, that the pensioner has constant vertigo, and periodical​ pain.