Title: Goodrich, Jared

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), 349.

Keywords:wounds and injuries of the facegunshot wounds of the facegunshot fractures of the facial bonesfractures involving upper and lower maxillæsecondary hæmorrhagefracture of lower maxilla

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e17899

TEI/XML: med.d1e17899.xml


CASE.—Private Jared Goodrich, 19th New York Battery, aged 43 years, was wounded at Spottsylvania​, Virginia, May 12th, 1864, by a conoidal ball, which fractured the lower jaw, right side. He was admitted to the Stanton Hospital, Washington, on the 20th. Simple dressings were applied, and tonics and stimulants administered. He died May 27th, 1864, from exhaustion and secondary hæmorrhage. The case is reported by Surgeon John A. Lidell, U. S. V.