Title: Beeker, Abram

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888), 385.

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 implicatedgunshot flesh wound of heeltyphoid feverlungs contained frothy, bloody fluidPeyer's patches congested in ileum, ulcerated near ileo-cæcal valvesolitary glands ulcerated

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e9281

TEI/XML: med.d1e9281.xml


CASE 184—Private Abram Beeker, Co. H, 14th U. S. Inf.; age 39; was admitted May 11, 1864 with a gunshot flesh wound of the left heel. He contracted typhoid fever while in hospital, but had apparently convalesced; his appetite improved, and he gained strength during the last two days of his life; he was walking about within ten minutes of his death on July 30. Post-mortem examination seventeen hours after death: Body well nourished. The lungs contained much frothy, bloody fluid; the right weighed nineteen ounces and three-quarters, the left nineteen ounces. The heart was flabby and contained a small soft fibrinous clot in the right ventricle. The liver was flabby and dark-colored; the spleen weighed thirteen ounces and three-quarters. In the ileum Peyer's patches were congested, near the ileo-cæcal valve ulcerated; some of the solitary glands also were ulcerated. The large intestine was somewhat congested in its upper portion.—Act. Ass't Surg. H. M. Dean, Lincoln Hospital, Washington, D. C.