Title: Davenport, Nathaniel

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888), 753.

Keywords:diseases attributed to non-miasmatic exposuresdiseases of the respiratory organspneumoniaclinical recordsprogress of adynamic case to fatal terminationbloody expectoration, mixed with pusdiminished resonance anteriorly, subcrepitant ronchusrhonchusrhonchi and puerile respirationsputasputum copious and fetidpatient emaciated by night-sweats and exhausting diarrhœa

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e10828

TEI/XML: med.d1e10828.xml


CASE 9.—Private Nathaniel Davenport, Co. I, 26th Mich.; admitted Jan. 27, 1863, having been ill two weeks: Delirium; headache; face livid; skin hot and dry; pulse 100 and feeble; tongue dry; bowels loose; abdomen tumid and tender; thoracic symptoms trifling at first but afterwards aggravated; cough frequent and painful, with slight viscid, bloody expectoration, subsequently becoming mixed with pus; diminished resonance over right side anteriorly, with subcrepitant ronchus​ below and puerile respiration above. Gave iron, senega, carbonate of ammonia and morphia every four hours, with dry cups and turpentine stupes, followed by a blister. The sputa​ became copious and fetid and the patient emaciated by night-sweats and exhausting diarrhœa. Gave tonics, stimulants and nutritious diet. He died April 30.—Third Division Hospital, Alexandria, Va.