Title: Green, Sylvester

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888), 747.

Keywords:diseases attributed to non-miasmatic exposuresdiseases of the respiratory organsdiphtheritic inflammation of the fauces, etc.doubt diphtheria was constitutional disease from specific poisonpost-mortem recordsdiphtheriaadmitted with fever and swelling of parotid glands.false membrane extended from glottis to bronchiswelling of parotid glandsswelling of neck with dyspnœa and dysphagiadied asphyxiatedboth lungs emphysematous

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e10789

TEI/XML: med.d1e10789.xml


CASE 18.—Private Sylvester Green, Co. D, 186th N.Y.; age 19; was admitted May 2, 1865, with fever and swelling of the parotid glands. On the 5th there was much swelling of the neck with increased dyspnœa and dysphagia, thready pulse, anxious countenance and profuse perspiration. He died asphyxiated on that day. Post-mortem examination: A perfectly-formed false membrane extended from the glottis to the bronchi; the lungs were emphysematous.—Slough Hospital, Alexandria, Va.