Title: Robinson, Gain O.

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888), 770.

Keywords:diseases attributed to non-miasmatic exposuresdiseases of the respiratory organspneumoniapost-mortem recordslobar pneumoniasassociated with pericarditisremittent fevervomited bilious matterlungs congested, exuded bloody liquidheart fattypericardium thickened, contained serum

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e11015

TEI/XML: med.d1e11015.xml


CASE 78.—Private Gain O. Robinson, Co. H, 28th Mich.; age 38; admitted Feb. 6, 1865, with much pain; fever of remittent character; excessive dyspnœa; vomiting of bilious matters; face livid; delirious most of the time. Died 14th. Post-mortem examination: Sudamina; capillary congestion on neck and breast. Lungs much congested and exuding a bloody liquid on section. Pericardium thickened, containing four drachms and a half of serum; heart of medium size, fatty.—Third Division Hospital, Alexandria, Va.