Title: Goodwin, H. H.

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888), 747.

Keywords:diseases attributed to non-miasmatic exposuresdiseases of the respiratory organsdiphtheritic inflammation of the fauces, etc.doubt diphtheria was constitutional disease from specific poisonpost-mortem recordsdiphtheriamucous membrane of pharynx covered with diphtheritic membraneepiglottis congested and ulceratedlarynx and first two rings of trachea covered with false membranecavity of larynx contained fibrinous plug

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e10776

TEI/XML: med.d1e10776.xml


CASE 14.—Private H. H. Goodwin, Co. G, 1st Mass. Cav., was admitted Feb. 1, 1864, from the Army of the Potomac with diphtheria. He died on the 3d. Post-mortem examination: The mucous membrane of the pharynx was covered with diphtheritic membrane. The epiglottis was much congested and ulcerated; the larynx and first two rings of the trachea were congested and covered with false membrane; the cavity of the larynx contained a large fibrinous plug.—Act. Ass't Surgeon L. Dorsey, Harewood Hospital, Washington, D. C.