Title: Buck, John

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888), 831.

Keywords:diseases attributed to non-miasmatic exposuresrheumatic affectionsacute rheumatismclinical or post-mortem recordsdeath generally due to implication of the heartadmitted with rheumatic feverdyspnœa, countenance anxiousaction of heart tumultuouspericardium thick and opaque, contained serum and lymphendocardium injected

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e11524

TEI/XML: med.d1e11524.xml


CASE 8.—Private John Buck, Co. G, 7th Wis., was admitted March 19, 1865, with rheumatic fever. On April 4 he had diarrhœa and gastric irritation. Two days later dyspnœa was added to his symptoms and his countenance became anxious; the action of the heart was tumultuous, the area of cardiac dulness​ increased and the pulse small, irregular and intermittent. Death occurred on the 8th. Post-mortem examination: The pericardium, which was thick and opaque, contained six ounces of serum and lymph; the endocardium was injected; the chordæ tendineæ in the right ventricle showed some adherent fibrin; the left ventricle contained a fibrinous clot.—Act. Ass't Surgeon J. H. Brownlow, Harewood Hospital, Washington, D. C.