Title: Waldron, John

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888), 763.

Keywords:diseases attributed to non-miasmatic exposuresdiseases of the respiratory organspneumonialobar pneumoniapost-mortem recordslaryngeal complicationstubercular deposit in lower lung, tissue indurated and inflamedintoxicated, found at night lying in rainglottis and larynx inflamedliver adherent to diaphragmboth lungs adherent and hepatized

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e10898

TEI/XML: med.d1e10898.xml


CASE 27.—Private John Waldron, 29th Mass. Batt'y; admitted and died Feb. 21, 1865. On the preceding day this man had become intoxicated, and was found at night lying in the rain near Fort Bennett. Post-mortem examination: Glottis and larynx inflamed. Right lung adherent and hepatized; left adherent, lower lobe hepatized and presenting a tubercular deposit three-quarters of an inch in diameter, with the tissue around it indurated and slightly inflamed. Heart normal. Liver adherent to diaphragm, substance normal; spleen normal; right kidney congested. Stomach in its pyloric half covered with brownish patches; duodenum similarly affected; jejunum, ileum and large intestine normal.—Hospital, Fort Strong, Va.