Title: Talbot, John B.

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888), 789.

Keywords:diseases attributed to non-miasmatic exposuresdiseases of the respiratory organspneumoniapost-mortem records of catarrhal caseslobar pneumoniassecondary pneumoniascases associated with the specific poison of measles, presenting little of interest beyond a specification of the appearance and locality of the affected parts of the lungmeaslespleuro-pneumonia following measleslung hepatized red, small superficial abscessespleura thickened

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e11279

TEI/XML: med.d1e11279.xml


CASE 50.—Private John B. Talbot, Co. H, 6th Mich. Cav.; age 23; admitted Feb. 13, 1864, with pleuro-pneumonia, following measles. Died 29th. Post-mortem examination: The lower lobe of the right lung was hepatized red and presented on section a number of small superficial abscesses. [Specimen 345, Med. Sec., Army Medical Museum.] The pleura was thickened. The kidneys were fatty.—Surgeon E. Bentley, U. S. Vols., Third Division Hospital, Alexandria, Va.