Title: Lassell, Charles

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888), 137.

Keywords:pathology of malarial diseasepost-mortem recordsremittent fevertyphoid symptomsPeyer's patches enlarged

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e918

TEI/XML: med.d1e918.xml


CASE 86.—Charles Lassell, Co. L, 14th N. Y. Heavy Art'y; age 28; was admitted June 15, 1864, with remittent fever. On the 20th typhoid symptoms, including diarrhœa, were developed, and he died on the 22d. Post-mortem examination twenty hours after death: Some of Peyer's patches were enlarged and some inflamed, but none ulcerated.—Third Division Hospital, Alexandria, Va..