Shea, Thomas a machine readable transcription Susan C. Lawrence Kenneth M. Price Kenneth J. Winkle 2011 med.d1e10733 Civil War Washington University of Nebraska–Lincoln Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
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 The following are responsible for particular readings or for changes to this file, as noted: Matthew Bosley Elizabeth Lorang Stacey Berry Elisabeth Tracey The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion Washington, DC Government Printing Office Part 3 Volume 1 1888 745 Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion diseases attributed to non-miasmatic exposures disease of the respiratory organs diphtheritic inflammation of the fauces post-mortem records admitted with pneumonia lung crepitant, coated with yellow lymph white deposits upon throat pharynx dark-purple, tonsils with patches of thick white deposit upper lobe of lung solidified, bronchial tubes dark-colored kidneys fatty additional proofing of transcription and encoding, edited and added keyword terms additional proofing of transcription and encoding, edited and added keyword terms additional proofing of transcription and encoding additional proofing of transcription and encoding case text extracted and transformed from larger file Encoding and Proofing Initial Checking OCR Text to PDF file,

CASE 3.—Private Thomas Shea, Co. F, 4th Minn.; age 25; was admitted Feb. 16, 1865, with pneumonia. He progressed satisfactorily until the 21st, when white deposits appeared upon the throat. He died on the 25th. Post-mortem examination: Membranes of brain fully injected. Pharynx dark-purple; tonsils with patches of thick white deposit. Right lung crepitant but coated with yellow lymph; upper lobe of left lung solidified and bronchial tubes dark-colored. Heart adherent and some yellow serum in pericardium. Liver small, anæmic, with old adhesions; spleen soft, pale, granular; kidneys fatty.—Third Division Hospital, Alexandria, Va.