Title: E——, Augustus

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), 254.

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 skullfatal cases of gunshot fractures of the skull treated by the removal or elevation fragmentstreated by operation, not by formal trephiningextent of injury ascertained with precision, organic alterations accurately observedfragment of shell fractured anterior superior angle of right parietal bonespiculæ of bone removed

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e16439

TEI/XML: med.d1e16439.xml


CASE.—Private Augustus E——, Co. D. 20th Maine Volunteers, aged 20 years, was wounded at the battle of Spottsylvania​, Virginia, May 12th, 1864, by a fragment of shell, which fractured the anterior superior angle of the right parietal bone. He was admitted into Stanton Hospital, Washington, on the 20th, where spiculæ of bone were removed. Ice dressings were applied, and tonics and stimulants administered. The patient sank rapidly, and died on May 24th, 1864, from exhaustion. The pathological specimen is No. 2679, Sect. I, A. M. M. A section of cranium, with six fragments of bone. The opening in the parietal measures one and three-fourth inches from right to left, and half an inch antero-posteriorly. The shape of the opening is very unusual, being nearly that of a rectangle. The specimen and history were contributed by Assistant Surgeon George A. Mursick, U. S. V.