VI? VS? Terminology help needed

[Andersonh1]

I'm hoping some of the experts here can help me out. In researching the records for an ancestor in the CS army, there is this card noting that he "Appears on a Register of St. Mary's Hospital, West Point, Miss." The date is January 10, 1865, and the "disease" is either VS or VI, I can't quite decide. Any thoughts on this? Whatever the illness/injury, it was not fatal. Thomas Barton lived until 1906.

 

[John Winn]

I believe that to be V.S. which stood for vulnus sclopeticum which meant a gunshot wound.

 

[JOHN42768]

One would think they might have elaborated , such as where on the body or multiple

 

[Andersonh1]

One would think they might have elaborated , such as where on the body or multiple

I'd have thought so too, but the rest of the card gives no details about the injury.

 

[Frederick14Va]

@John Winn is correct "VS", equates to Gunshot Wound.

The file card above was gleaned from the Hospital admittance register, which normally just indicates the primary problem or complaint. Details on the location and severity of the wounds, also what was done would typically be found in the patient case books. Many of these have never been cataloged, indexed or digitized. If they even have survived.

 

[Andersonh1]

Thanks, all. This has been very helpful.