CASE 102.—Private Austin
Seeley, Co. C,
73d Ohio, was admitted Dec. 18, 1862. He had been
treated for intermittent fever in the Harewood hospital, Washington, D. C., from November
19. He died Jan. 30, 1863. Post-mortem examination next day:
Age about 24; body emaciated. Lungs, excepting a slight
bronchial inflammation, healthy; heart contained a large
white clot in its right cavities; spleen redder than natural
and flabby; liver pale brown and on section pale brown with
darker intralobular spots; stomach and upper portion of
small intestine apparently healthy; agminated glands in the
lower five feet of ileum successively and gradually
increasing in enlargement; glands in the terminal foot
dark-red and bordered by inflamed mucous membrane, those
nearest the ileo-colic valve presenting several small
ulcerations; solitary glands apparently healthy; colon
greatly distended, its mucous membrane redder than natural,
but with no inflamed spots, streaks or patches, and with no
visible disease of solitary glands; lymphatic
glands of mesentery and mesocolon bluish-black, which color
on section formed a circle within the periphery, and under
the microscope presented the appearance of exceedingly fine
particles similar to the black deposits in the intestinal
glands in Chickahominy diarrhœa; kidneys
healthy.—[Specimens
Nos. 99-101, Med. Sect., Army Medical Museum, ulceration of Peyer's
patches, are from this case.]—Act. Ass't Surg. Joseph Leidy, Satterlee Hospital,
Philadelphia, Pa.