Title: Parker, Louis

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), 257.

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 skullabscessformations of pus between skull and membranes and within brain tissuefracture of occipital bone by conoidal ballautopsygrayish pus between dura mater and cerebellum

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e16507

TEI/XML: med.d1e16507.xml


PARKER, LOUIS, Private, Co. K, 43d New York, aged 32 years. Fredericksburg, December 13th, 1862. Fracture of occipital by conoidal ball. Third division hospital, Alexandria. Removal of several fragments. Died January 13th, 1863. Autopsy revealed two ounces of grayish pus between dura mater and cerebellum.