Robert A. Butcher

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Title: Robert A. Butcher
Creator: Harewood General Hospital
Photographer unidentified
Contributor: Bontecou, Reed Brockway, 1824-1907
Harewood General Hospital
Reed B. (Brockway) Bontecou 1824-1907
Robert A. Butcher
Published / Created: 1865
Publication Place: Washington, D.C.
Description: Harewood U.S.A. General Hospital,
R. B. BONTECOU,
Robert A. Butcher, Private, Co. H, 82nd Pa. Vols, was admitted to Harewood U.S. Gen'l Hospital, April 16th, 1865, having two sabre cuts across the top of the head, received near South-side Railroad, Va., April 10th, 1865. The anterior wound was near, and in line with the coronal suture. The posterior one, about one inch and a half from the first and parallel with it. The bone was not denuded. The wounds healed rapidly. May 29th, the patient, for the first time complained of severe headache, and intolerance of light, and the anterior wound soon after re-opened discharging unhealthy pus. The head-ache gradually subsided, the wound again healed, and he was discharged nearly well, June 9th, 1865.
Robert A. Butcher.
Surgeon U.S. Vols., In Charge.
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
Robert A. Butcher
Subject (Topic): Head—Wounds and injuries
Medical photography—patients
Medical photography—United States—19th century
United States—History—Civil War, 1861-1865—Medical and sanitary affairs

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