Title: Unknown

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), 258.

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 elevation or removal of fragmentsmissiles lodgedlodgement of projectiles in brain tissuepenetrating gunshot wound of parietal bonemissile lodged in brain substancedepressed fragments of bone removed

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e16565

TEI/XML: med.d1e16565.xml


UNKNOWN, admitted to Lincoln Hospital, Washington, April 8th, 1865. Gunshot penetrating wound of left parietal; missile lodged in the brain substance. Removal of depressed fragments of bone April 9th. Died April 10th, 1865.