Title: Cutler, Dudley S.

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888), 262.

Keywords:clinical recordscontinued feverstyphoid feverrheumatic painchronic rheumatismfever cases from various recordsreported as typhoid, many modified by malarial influence

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e5072

TEI/XML: med.d1e5072.xml


CASE 31.—Rheumatic pains.—Corporal Dudley S. Cutler, Co. F, 83d Pa.; age 20; was received June 12, 1863, from Lincoln hospital, Washington, D. C. [He had been treated for typhoid fever in regimental hospital until April 20, when he was transferred to Lincoln hospital.] On admission he complained of a dull heavy pain in the left hip and leg and seemed to have lost a good deal of flesh. Cups, blisters and liniments were employed with turpentine emulsion internally. [On August 1 he was removed to Sixteenth and Filbert streets hospital, Philadelphia, Pa. Diagnosis—chronic rheumatism. He was transferred to the 1st Battalion, V. R. C, September 23.]—Satterlee Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa.