Walter Wheeler, Hospital Number 20,870

Description

Title: Walter Wheeler, Hospital Number 20,870
Creator: Harewood General Hospital
Photographer unidentified
Contributor: Bontecou, Reed Brockway, 1824-1907
Harewood General Hospital
Reed B. (Brockway) Bontecou 1824-1907
Walter Wheeler, Hospital Number 20,870
Published / Created: 1865
Publication Place: Washington, D.C.
Description: Harewood U.S.A. General Hospital,
Hospital Number 20,870.
R. B. BONTECOU,
Surgeon U.S. Vols., In charge.
Walter Wheeler, Private Co. B. 91st N.Y. Vols., age 37, was admitted into Harewood U.S.A. General Hospital, April 19th 1865, with gunshot wound of the right side of the head. The wound was received before Petersburg, Va., April 2nd 1865. The ball entering above the anterior zygomatic articulation and passing through temporal fossa emerged just above the external meatus. April 22nd 1865 he had a slight hemorrhage from the common temporal artery which was ligated. An incision was made between the wound of entrance and exit, when it was found that a small portion of the bone at the point of exit was denuded of pericranium. A portion of bone was subsequently removed and the patient is now (June 17) fully recovered.
Walter Wheeler.
Extent: 7.5 in. x 5.5 in. (approximate) oval mounted on 11 in. x 9 in. board
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Albumen Print
Resource Type: Prints & Photographs
Subject (Geographic): Washington, D.C
Subject (Name): Bontecou, Reed Brockway, 1824-1907
Harewood General Hospital
Reed B. (Brockway) Bontecou 1824-1907
Walter Wheeler, Hospital Number 20,870
Subject (Topic): Head—Wounds and injuries—Surgery
Medical photography—patients
Medical photography—United States—19th century
United States—History—Civil War, 1861-1865—Medical and sanitary affairs

Access: Public
Rights: The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement