Title: Mitchell, Thomas H.

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888), 762.

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 scurvyupper and middle lobes of right lung adherent, gray, and granularlower lobe of right lung crepitantlower lobe of left lung brownish-red, bronchial tubes dark and thickenedliver cirrhosed

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e10879

TEI/XML: med.d1e10879.xml


CASE 22.—Private Thomas H. Mitchell, Co. G, 16th N. Y. Cav.; age 45; admitted Nov. 20, 1864, with scurvy, which yielded to the usual treatment. On March 28, 1865, he had chills followed by pain in the chest with cough. Died April 6. Post-mortem examination: Upper and middle lobes of right lung largely adherent, solid, gray, granular and friable; lower lobe crepitant, slightly injected. Lower lobe of left lung brownish-red, its bronchial tubes dark and thickened. Liver cirrhosed; spleen soft, full of blood; kidneys pale.—Third Division Hospital, Alexandria, Va.