Vulnus Sclopeticum

[tdstepen]

Latin medical term for gunshot wound. Private Joseph Dedman of Ward's Battery,Alabama Light Artillery, entered the hospital at Selma,Alabama on April 3,1865 suffering from Vulnus Sclopeticum.

 

[Nathanb1]

Thanks! I rarely pay attention to the glossary, unless I am looking for something. That's a doozy.

 

[tdstepen]

Oh! I see I misspelled the word. I had it as Vulnus Sclopetican. It is Vulnus Sclopeticum. That Private Joseph Dedman died of Vulnus Sclopeticum on April 16,1865 in Selma,Alabama after checking into the hospital on April 3, 1865. It must have been as a result of the Battle of Selma where the battery was overrun.
I found the term mentioned here:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSvcid=181987&GRid=64315885&
He was one of 67 men of Ward's /Cruse Battery at Find A Grave.

 

[7th Texas Mounted Rifles]

My ancestor had an attempted spelling of it recorded on his death roll at the CSA hospital in Houston after Galveston 2.

'Vulnus Solopet'.

Alot of the confederate boys from around here were half-illiterate AND used German as a first language - really makes for some humorous reading at times.

On a related note,
Before he was killed, that same ancestor wrote his correspondence primarily using english, but laced with german words when he didn't know/couldn't spell(?) the english equivalent.

While in New Mexico with Sibley's brigade he wrote to his father reporting that 'the deer as well as waschbär are plentiful.'

I guess 'raccoon' was a tough one for him, haha.

 

[John Hartwell]

"Vulnus sclopet." seems to have been a general abbreviation. Here is a report on casualties at Antietam:

from: http://blogs.ancestry.com/cm/2013/0...eath-you-dont-want-on-your-death-certificate/

 

[tdstepen]

Here is where I found those Latin terms
http://www.antiquusmorbus.com/Latin/Latin.htm

 

[AndyHall]

Here is where I found those Latin terms
http://www.antiquusmorbus.com/Latin/Latin.htm

Added that link as a resource on my blog, thanks.

 

[AndyHall]

Alot of the confederate boys from around here were half-illiterate AND used German as a first language - really makes for some humorous reading at times.

A friend of mine is curator of a cotton gin museum in Burton, Texas, and they have all the gin records going back to its founding c. 1914. For the first few years about half are in English, and half in German. The German records end in the spring of 1917, when the U.S. entered World War I.

Even those old German-language records are unusual, though, because the speakers in that area were a couple of generations removed from Germany, and so had developed their own dialect, spellings and word usage that is distinct from the language as spoken in Germany then. The museum has has at least one linguistic researcher visit, to record that dialect as reflected in their records.

 

[bankerpapaw]

Oh! I see I misspelled the word. I had it as Vulnus Sclopetican. It is Vulnus Sclopeticum. That Private Joseph Dedman died of Vulnus Sclopeticum on April 16,1865 in Selma,Alabama after checking into the hospital on April 3, 1865. It must have been as a result of the Battle of Selma where the battery was overrun.
I found the term mentioned here:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSvcid=181987&GRid=64315885&
He was one of 67 men of Ward's /Cruse Battery at Find A Grave.

Don't worry about mispelling. I can't even say it.

 

[chellers]

Here is where I found those Latin terms
http://www.antiquusmorbus.com/Latin/Latin.htm

Great list; some of the terms remain in use.
Thanks for posting.