Title: Felton, Everett H.

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888), 383.

Keywords:the continued feverspost-mortem records of continued feverscases reported as typhoid fever, the clinical history insufficient or absentPeyer's patches ulcerated and the large intestine also implicatedtyphoid feverPeyer's patches and solitary follicles ulceratednumerous small ulcers in large intestine

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e8955

TEI/XML: med.d1e8955.xml


CASE 167.—Private Everett H. Felton, Co. G, 187th Pa.; age 28; was admitted Aug. 30, 1864, with an apparently mild attack of typhoid fever; but on September 20 a profuse diarrhœa supervened, and he died October 5. Post-mortem examination ten hours after death: Body much emaciated. Brain and thoracic viscera normal; a fibrinous clot in each side of the heart; spleen and kidneys normal; several Peyer's patches and solitary follicles ulcerated; numerous small ulcers in the large intestine.—Act. Ass't Surg. H. M. Dean, Lincoln Hospital, Washington, D. C.