Title: Boren, Daniel

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888), 727-728.

Keywords:diseases attributed to non-miasmatic exposuresdisease of the respiratory organsacute bronchitispost-mortem recordsacute bronchitis, fatal by supervention of lobular inflammationplastic bronchitishemiplegiaupper and middle lobes of right lung firmly adherent and consolidatedfibrinous plug filled lumen of large bronchus leading to consolidated lung

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e10655

TEI/XML: med.d1e10655.xml


Private Daniel Boren, Co. K, 96th Pa.; admitted Jan. 2, 1863. Diagnosis: Hemiplegia. Died February 2. Post-mortem examination: Rigor mortis well marked; emaciated; veins full of blood. Brain, forty-nine ounces and a half, full of blood; choroid plexus pale, but its largest vessels full and tortuous; veins of pia mater injected; veins of pons and medulla full of blood; gray matter apparently diminished in amount; stria of pons marked. Right lung forty-two ounces; pigment deposit on pleura in intercostal spaces; coagulable lymph on upper and middle lobes, which were firmly adherent and consolidated in the vicinity of the adhesions; remainder of the lung much congested; in the large bronchial tube leading to the consolidated mass was a fibrinous plug one and a half inches long, filling the lumen; surface of tube mottled white and red. Left lung healthy. Heart, seven and a half ounces, firm; small clot in each ventricle. Liver, forty-nine ounces, dark, friable; spleen, four and three-quarter ounces, much congested, firm. Colon congested.—Lincoln Hospital, Washington, D. C.