Gunshot Wound

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Take from Dr. Leale's account: ( He has the most amazing handwriting I have ever seen )

About 11PM the right eye began to protrude which was rapidly followed by an increase of the ecchymosis until it encircled the orbit extending above the supra orbital ridge and below the infra orbital foramen.

The wound was kept open by the Surgeon General by means of a silver probe…..who introduced it to a distance of about 2 1/2 inches when it came in contact with a foreign substance which laid across the track of the ball.

This being easily passed the probe was introduced several inches further, when it again touched a hard substance, which was at first supposed to be the ball, but as the bulb of the probe on its withdrawal did not indicate the mark of lead, it was generally though to be another piece of loose bone.
http://www.impactednurse.com/?p=4495

http://www.papersofabrahamlincoln.org/ne...il-15-1865