Title: Lower, John

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888), 776.

Keywords:diseases attributed to non-miasmatic exposuresdisease of the respiratory organspneumonialobar pneumoniapost-mortem recordsabscess or circumscribed disintegration of pulmonary tissueadmitted with pain in right side and coughboth lungs adherent at apiceslung contained several small abscesseslung compressed against anterior wall by large pleuritic effusion

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e11100

TEI/XML: med.d1e11100.xml


CASE 130.—Private John Lower, Co. C, 178th Ohio, was admitted Feb. 6, 1865, with pain in the right side and cough of several weeks duration. He improved under treatment until March 1, when, having imprudently exposed himself, his symptoms became aggravated; dulness​ over greater part of right side. 8th: Delirium; skin yellow. He became steadily weaker and died on the 25th. Post-mortem examination: Right lung adherent at apex and anteriorly, carnified, containing several small abscesses, and compressed against the anterior wall by seventy-five ounces of pleuritic effusion and lymph-flakes; left lung adherent at apex and posteriorly, some hypostatic congestion. Liver congested and with patches of recent lymph on its upper surface.—Douglas Hospital, Washington, D. C.