Branch, Theophilus in the Union Army; Winn, Rapides, LA
Submitter: Junior Branch
Date: 17 Oct 2006
Source: NARA
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MEDICAL AFFIDAVIT
Present Condition of Soldier.
This Affidavit should be in the handwriting of the Physician whose statement
should conform as near as possible to the marginal insturctions hereonwhich he should read with great care.The diagnosis of the soldiers condition should be so full and compelete that a medical man will be enabled at once unmistakeably to recognize the character of the disease,wound or injuries.The statement should be in Narrative Form and the marginsl instructions should not be referred to by number in the affidavet.
State of Louisiana 
County of Winn
In the matter of the pension claim of Theophilus Branch - Back Pension
late of CO.  C 1st regt LA ???? scouts VOLS,personally came before me R.L.
Jones clerk Distrect Court in and forsaid county and state,Dr.C R Wilcox
of Gansville county of winn state of Louisiana who I hereby certify is a
respectable and credible person,and who being duly sworn,declares in relation
to the aforesaid claim that his age is forty years;that he has been a practising physician for the past fifteen years;that he has made careful
medical examination of the above-named claimant and finds his present
physical condition as follows A suffers from muscular rhumatism of the
back disabling him from such manual labor as requires him to bend or
stoop.This disability is rated one fourth he also has a direct inguinal
hernia of the left side which requires the constant use of a truss
rated at one half.