Title: Slow, Sylvester

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888), 574-575.

Keywords:diseases allied to or associated withthe paroxysmal and continued feverscerebro-spinal feverclinical and post-mortem recordscases at the hospitals of Alexandria, Va.yellow exudation at base of brain and between cerebrum and cerebellumturbid serum in lateral ventricleslobular pneumoniacirrhosis of liverinflammation of solitary follicles of ileum and cæcumfit lasting short time, then delirious and incoherentshort harassing cough accompanied frothy, bloody expectorationenlargement of spleen

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e10201

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Case at the Hospitals of Alexandria, Va.


CASE 70.—Private Sylvester Slow, Co. K, 20th Mass.; age 24; was admitted Dec. 28, 1864, having walked from the Washington street prison. He complained of pain in the joints and insisted that there was nothing else the matter with him; his tongue was somewhat brown in the centre, but the edges were clean and moist; skin dry and cool; eyes natural; bowels moved during the previous night; breathing somewhat hurried; slight dulness​ over both lungs; no headache. During the night he had a fit lasting but a short time, after which he became delirious, muttering incoherently, and affected at the same time with a short harassing cough accompanied with frothy, bloody expectoration. He died at 11 A. M. of the 29th. Post-mortem examination: Yellow exudation at the base of the brain and between the cerebrum and cerebellum; some slightly turbid serum in the lateral ventricles; a pigment deposit the size of a pea in the lower part of the right optic thalamus, presumed to be the result of a former extravasation of blood; slight hardening of the brain-substance. Some lobular pneumonia; cirrhosis of the liver; enlargement of the spleen; inflammation of the solitary follicles of the ileum and cæcum.