Title: Murphy, James

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), 129.

Keywords:on special wounds and injuries of the headwounds and injuries of the headgunshot woundsgunshot contusions of the cranial bonesgunshot fractures of the external table of the cranium alonefractures of the external wall of the frontal sinusconoidal ball entered behind temporal fossa, passed forward, fractured outer table of frontal bone at supra orbitalsupraorbital ridgeportions of bone removedipsilateral pupil widely dilated, vision impairedno brain symptoms

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e9328

TEI/XML: med.d1e9328.xml


CASE.—Private James Murphy, Co. K, 96th Pennsylvania Volunteers, was wounded at the battle of Spottsylvania​, Virginia, May 12th, 1864, by a conoidal ball which entered behind the right temporal fossa, passed forward and fractured the outer table of the frontal bone at the supra orbital​ ridge. He was conveyed to Washington, D. C., and on May 18th admitted to Douglas Hospital. There was no depression, but the right pupil was widely dilated and vision impaired. No brain symptoms occurred at any time. Poultices were applied and portions of bone subsequently removed. The patient recovered, and on June 18th was sent to Haddington Hospital, and on July 23d, 1864, returned to duty. He is not a pensioner.