Civil War Washington

MORTON, DARIUS, Private, Co. F, 9th New York Cavalry, was wounded in a skirmish during General Pleasonton's raid into Virginia, and was admitted, on November 12th, 1862, to the Armory Square Hospital, Washington, with a gunshot wound of the scalp, with contusion. No particulars of the treatment are recorded. Compression of the brain supervened, and the operation of trephining was performed by Surgeon D. W. Bliss, U. S. V. The symptoms of compression were not relieved, and the patient died on November 18th, 1862. The pathological specimen was forwarded to the Army Medical Museum. It consists of a segment of the right parietal bone, of a very thin calvaria​, trephined near the coronal suture. The outer table of the bone surrounding the perforation is porous and cribriform, and there are traces of contusion of the disk removed. There are no pathological appearances on the inner table. The specimen, which is represented in the adjacent wood-cut, (FIG. 44,) was contributed by the operator, Surgeon D. W. Bliss, U. S. V.