Title: Sharp, Nicholas V.

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888), 575.

Keywords:diseases allied to or associated withthe paroxysmal and continued feverscerebro-spinal feverclinical and post-mortem recordscases at the hospitals of Alexandria, Va.typhoid feverpost-mortem examination performeddark purple spots covering bodyeffusion at base of brain and between cerebrum and cerebellumengorgement of cerebral veins and serous effusion in ventriclespericardial sac contained effused serumupper lobe of lung inflamed and softenedliver large, fatty, and granular, spleen large

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e10274

TEI/XML: med.d1e10274.xml


Case at the Hospitals of Alexandria, Va.


CASE 73.—Private Nicholas V. Sharp, Co. A, 25th Wis.; age 36; admitted Feb. 9, 1865, from Washington street prison. Diagnosis—typhoid fever. The only symptoms on the record are: Dark-purple spots covering the body; tongue slightly coated; pulse 130, weak; some frontal headache; bowels loose. He died during the day. Post-mortem examination: Lymph was effused at the base of the brain and between the cerebrum and cerebellum; there was also engorgement of the cerebral veins and serous effusion in the ventricles. The pericardial sac contained effused serum. Part of the upper lobe of the left lung was inflamed and softened. The liver was large, fatty, soft and granular; the spleen large, soft and discolored; the small intestine normal; the colon slightly inflamed.