Risher, William G. a machine readable transcription Susan C. Lawrence Kenneth M. Price Kenneth J. Winkle 2011 med.d1e16876 Civil War Washington University of Nebraska–Lincoln Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
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CASE.—Private William G. Risher, Co. E, 139th Pennsylvania Volunteers, aged 22 years, was wounded in the defences of Washington, July 12th, 1864, by a conoidal ball, which fractured the frontal bone three-fourths of an inch to the right of the median line and half an inch anterior to the coronal suture, and lodged. He was admitted to Campbell Hospital on the 13th in a comatose condition, and on the same day Acting Assistant Surgeon E. A. Kemp applied the trephine, and removed the ball and fragments of bone which had been driven two inches into the brain substance. Ice was applied to the head, purgatives administered, and abstinence from food rigidly enforced. Death supervened on July 15th, 1864. The case is reported by Surgeon J. H. Baxter, U. S. V.