CASE 9.—Private Nathaniel Davenport, Co. I, 26th
Mich.; admitted Jan. 27, 1863, having been ill two weeks:
Delirium; headache; face livid; skin hot and dry; pulse 100
and feeble; tongue dry; bowels loose; abdomen tumid and
tender; thoracic symptoms trifling at first but afterwards
aggravated; cough frequent and painful, with slight
viscid, bloody expectoration, subsequently becoming mixed
with pus; diminished resonance over right side anteriorly,
with subcrepitant ronchusrhonchusrhonchi below and puerile respiration
above. Gave iron, senega, carbonate of ammonia and morphia
every four hours, with dry cups and turpentine stupes,
followed by a blister. The sputasputum became copious and fetid
and the patient emaciated by night-sweats and exhausting
diarrhœa. Gave tonics, stimulants and nutritious diet. He
died April 30.—Third Division Hospital, Alexandria, Va.