Title: Jones, William H.

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888), 766.

Keywords:diseases attributed to non-miasmatic exposuresdiseases of the respiratory organspneumoniapost-mortem recordslobar pneumoniascases suggestive of the poison of typhoid feveradmitted with typhoid pneumoniadyspnœa with rusty sputasputumsplenization in both lungsserum in pericardiumlower ileum and descending colon ulcerated and contained puspleuritic adhesions without effusion

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e10947

TEI/XML: med.d1e10947.xml


CASE 55.—William H. Jones, unassigned substitute; admitted Oct. 6, 1863, with typhoid pneumonia. He had some looseness of the bowels, great dyspnœa and cough with rusty sputa​; tongue brown and parched, skin hot and dry; he was much prostrated, had slight subsultus and at night delirium. He died comatose on the 8th. Post-mortem examination: Right lung and lower lobe of left in a state of complete splenization; pleuritic adhesions on the right side; no effusion. Eight ounces of serum in pericardium; heart flabby and atrophied. Spleen and lower portion of gastro-colic omentum congested; lower part of ileum and descending colon ulcerated and containing pus; kidneys and bladder normal.—Act. Ass't Surgeon W. Leon Hammond, 1st Division Hospital, Alexandria, Va.