Title: Mullen, John

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888), 795.

Keywords:diseases attributed to non-miasmatic exposuresdiseases of the respiratory organspneumoniapost-mortem records of catarrhal caseslobar pneumoniassecondary pneumoniascases terminated in gangreneadmitted with measlesgangrenepost-mortem examinationpleural cavity lined with lymph and filled with liquidcircumscribed gangrene of lower lobe of each lung

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e11358

TEI/XML: med.d1e11358.xml


CASE 117.—Private John Mullen, Co. H, 6th Mich. Cav.; age 16; was admitted Feb. 13, 1864, with measles. He died on the 25th. Post-mortem examination: Right pleural cavity lined with lymph and filled with liquid; circumscribed gangrene of the lower lobe of each lung. Other organs healthy.—Third Division Hospital, Alexandria, Va.