Identifier: medicalsurgicalh01unituoft (find matches)
Title: The medical and surgical history of the war of the rebellion. (1861-65). Prepared, in accordance with the acts of Congress, under the direction of Surgeon general Joseph K. Barnes, United States army
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: United States Surgeon General's Office Barnes, Joseph K, 1817-1883 Huntington, David Lowe, 1834-1899 Otis, George Alexander, 1830-1881 Smart, Charles Woodward, Joseph Janvier, 1833-1884
Subjects: Medicine, Military Surgery, Military United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Medical and sanitary affairs
Publisher: Washington Govt. print. off
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ger, is represented in the chromo plate facing page 524. The patient wasa soldier who died in Judiciary Square hospital during the summer of 1863. His diseasewas recorded as chronic diarrhoea. The specimen represents a portion of the descendingcolon, and is reproduced from a drawing made at the Museum by Mr. Hermann Faber.The colon was much thickened (ith to Jth of an inch in thickness) and considerably con-tracted. The mucous surface was of a bright red color, not unlike that of a granulatingwound. It presented a number of small follicular ulcers, some of them round, othersstellate, and some larger ulcers apparently resulting from the extension of the smaller ones;these ulcers for the most part had blackened bases. Thin patches of yellowish pseudo-membrane adhered in places to the mucous surface between the ulcers, the expression ofa diphtheritic inflammation by which the original follicular ulceration has been considerablyobscured. Unfortunately no history of the case was preserved.
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Thp colon IS thickened und .in.Tr nu; SECT. IV.) MORBID ANATOMY. 519 The extreme dimensions of the erosions, wliich occasionally result from the extensionof follicular ulcers, are well illustrated by the plate facing page 526, which is a reproductionof a photograph of No. 195, Medical Section. The following is an account of the case: Cash 904.—Siigoaut A. L. Mjincliester, company E, 152(1 New York volmiteerg; age S.T; was culUtcd Septcmlwr 27,1802. and continued to do duly with liis company until March, 1.863. During much of this time he had diarrha-a, which, how-ever, did not prevent him from remaining on duty. March 2d, being then on duty as one of the guard at Douglas lioxpital,Washington, D. C, ho was attacked by measles, witli dry skin, pulse 110, and dark tongue. At the time of this attack lit-was a good deal broken down by the disorder of his bowels, and when, on the .5th of March, he was transferred to a bedin the hospital, the entry in tlie register was measles and enteriti

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