Title: Dougherty, Joseph

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), 255.

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 skullhemorrhage, hæmorrhagebleeding either intracranial or from vessels without the skullfracture of right parietal by shellhæmorrhage from middle meningeal artery at operationligation of common carotid artery above omo-hyoidhæmorrhage recurredbleeding from vessels within skull

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e16478

TEI/XML: med.d1e16478.xml


DOUGHERTY, JOSEPH, Sergeant, Co. B, 69th New York, aged 23 years. Spottsylvania​, May 13th, 1864. Fracture of right parietal by shell. Alexandria hospital. Removal of fragment of bone. Hæmorrhage from middle meningeal artery. Ligation of common carotid above the omo-hyoid. May 26th, hæmorrhage recurred. Died May 26th, 1864.