Identifier: andersonvilles00mcel (find matches)
Title: Andersonville : a story of Rebel military prisons, fifteen months a guest of the so-called southern confederacy : a private soldier's experience in Richmond, Andersonville, Savannah, Millen, Blackshear, and Florence
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: McElroy, John, 1846-1929
Subjects: Andersonville Prison United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: Toledo : D. R. Locke
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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sphereof the Confederate States Military Prison Hospital; and in thedepressed, depraved condition of the system of these Federalprisoners, death ensued very rapidly after the gangrenous stateof the intestines was established. XI. A sco?hutic condition of the system appeared to favorthe origin of foul ulcers, which frequently took on true Iwspitalgangrene. Scurvy and gangrene frequently existed in the same indi-vidual. In such cases, vegetable diet with vegetable acidswould remove the scorbutic condition without curing thehospital gangrene. . . Scurvy consists not only in an alterationin the constitution of the blood, which leads to passive hemor- A STOFwY OF KEBEL MILITARY PRISONS. 389 rhages from the bowels, and the efTusion into the various tissuesof a deeply-colored fibrinous exudation; but, as we have con-clusively shown by ^ost-mortem examination, this state is alsoattended with consistence of the muscles of the heart, and ofthe mucous membrane of the alimentary canal, and of the
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A SECTION FROM THE EAST SIDE OF THE PRISON SHOWrXG THE DEAD LINE.(From Rebel Photographs in possession of lUj Author ) solid parts generally. We have, according to tlie extent of thedeficiency of certain articles of food, every degree of scorbuticderangement, from the most fearful depravation of the bloodand the perversion of every function subserved by the blood,to those slight derangements which are scarcely distinguishablefrom a state of health. We are as yet ignorant of the truenature of the changes of the blood and tissues in scurvy, and awide field for investigation is open for the determination ofUie characteristic changes—physical, chemical, and physio- 390 AI«)ERSOUTILLB. logical—of the blood and tissues, and of the secretions andexcretions of scurvy. Such inquiries would be of great valuein their bearing upon the origin of hospital gangrene. Up tothe present vrar, the results of chemical investigations uponthe pathology of the blood in scurvy were not only contradic-tor

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