Title: Welker, Henry B.

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888), 773.

Keywords:diseases attributed to non-miasmatic exposuresdiseases of the respiratory organspneumoniapost-mortem recordslobar pneumoniascases with erysipelaserysipelas of facesudden gasping respiration and diedliver enlargedpericardium thickenedlung adherent and purulent throughoutabscess containing pus burst into trachea and filled bronchial tubesserum in pleural cavitypericardium thickened

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e11052

TEI/XML: med.d1e11052.xml


CASE 104.—Private Henry B. Welker, Co. I, 87th Pa.; age 40; admitted March 30, 1865, from the Army of the Potomac, with erysipelas of the face. On April 6 he was suddenly attacked with gasping respiration and died in a few minutes. Post-mortem examination: Body somewhat emaciated. Heart healthy; pericardium thickened and containing a small quantity of serum; large fibrinous clots in the pulmonary artery and aortic arch. Right lung healthy; left firmly adherent and purulent throughout, with an abscess containing eight to ten ounces of pus which had burst into the trachea and filled the bronchial tubes; two pints of serum in the left pleural cavity. Liver somewhat enlarged; pericardium thickened; intestines normal.—Stanton Hospital, Washington, D. C.