Title: Peters, Joseph

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888), 760-761.

Keywords:diseases attributed to non-miasmatic exposuresdiseases of the respiratory organspneumoniapost-mortem recordslobar pneumoniaspost-mortem record prefaced by ante-mortem notes, indicating general course of diseaseadmitted with pneumonia of right sidesevere cough, rusty viscid sputasputumpleural sac contained serum mixed with puslung infiltrated with pusdulnessdullness and crepitation over lower left lunggreater part of right lung infiltrated with puslower left lung hepatized

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e10848

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CASE 7.—Recruit Joseph Peters, 29th Colored Troops; age 20; was admitted Feb. 20, 1865, having been sick for several days with pneumonia of the right side. He had a full strong pulse and severe cough, with rusty viscid sputa​. A poultice was applied and expectorants administered. He became restless on the 25th and complained of much pain. Dover's powder was given. On March 5 there was dulness​ over the lower part of the left lung and some crepitation was heard; the breathing became labored. On the 8th the patient was weak and restless; his pulse feeble; skin cold and freely perspiring. Stimulants and beef-extract were given every hour; a blister was applied to the left side, and two grains of calomel with opium were administered hourly for six hours. Next day his skin was warm and he felt easier; but the pulse became small, the breathing irregular and labored. He died on the 12th. Post-mortem examination: The right pleural sac contained twenty-eight ounces of serum mixed with pus and the greater part of the lung was infiltrated with pus; the lower portion of the left lung was hepatized.—Act. Ass't Surgeon S. D. Twining, L'Ouverture Hospital, Alexandria, Va.