Title: Michael, John

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), 133.

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 alonegrooving of outer plate and diploe, injury appears not to implicate inner tableconoidal ball entered scalp at vertex, ploughed out portion of scalp, grooved outer table of skullerysipelas, extended over forehead and side of face, parts around eye swollen

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e9800

TEI/XML: med.d1e9800.xml


CASE.—Private John Michael, Co. E, 67th Pennsylvania Volunteers, was wounded at the battle of the Wilderness, Virginia, May 6th, 1864, by a conoidal ball which entered the scalp at the vertex and ploughed out a portion of the scalp about three inches in length and one inch in width, and grooved the outer table of the skull. He was admitted to the hospital of the 1st division of the Sixth Corps, and on May 11th was sent to the Columbian Hospital at Washington, and May 15th to the Patterson Park Hospital, Baltimore, and on May 21st to the hospital at York, Pennsylvania. On May 31st erysipelas appeared and extended rapidly over the forehead and left side of the face, and the parts around the eye became much swollen. Ice water, tincture of iodine, and acetate of lead to the eye, were employed. On June 3d the wound had healed and the patient was nearly well. He was returned to duty on September 29th, 1864. The case is reported by Surgeon Henry Palmer, U. S. V. The name of this patient does not appear upon the Pension List.