Jones, William H. a machine readable transcription Susan C. Lawrence Kenneth M. Price Kenneth J. Winkle 2011 med.d1e10947 Civil War Washington University of Nebraska–Lincoln Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
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 The following are responsible for particular readings or for changes to this file, as noted: Matthew Bosley Elizabeth Lorang Stacey Berry Elisabeth Tracey The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion Washington, DC Government Printing Office Part 3 Volume 1 1888 766 Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion diseases attributed to non-miasmatic exposures diseases of the respiratory organs pneumonia post-mortem records lobar pneumonias cases suggestive of the poison of typhoid fever admitted with typhoid pneumonia dyspnœa with rusty sputasputum splenization in both lungs serum in pericardium lower ileum and descending colon ulcerated and contained pus pleuritic adhesions without effusion additional proofing of transcription and encoding, edited and added keyword terms additional proofing of transcription and encoding, edited and added keyword terms additional proofing of transcription and encoding case text extracted and transformed from larger file Encoding and Proofing Initial Checking OCR Text to PDF file,

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 sputasputum; 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.