Title: Swarer, Lewis

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 exposuresdiseases of the respiratory organspneumoniapost-mortem recordslobar pneumoniascases terminated in abscess or circumscrihed disintegration of the pulmonary tissuetyphoid pneumoniaparotid and submaxillary glands in state of suppurationpleural sacs partly obliterated by adhesions, contained serumlower lobe of lung hepatized, middle and upper lobes infiltrated with pusabscess in lung communicated with pericardiumpericardium contained large quantity pusliver enlargedmesentery wasted

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e11124

TEI/XML: med.d1e11124.xml


CASE 135.—Private Lewis Swarer, Co. A, 98th Pa.; admitted April 21, 1863. Typhoid pneumonia. Died 23d. Post-mortem examination: Body much emaciated; parotid and submaxillary glands in a state of suppuration. The pleural sacs were partly obliterated by adhesions and contained straw-colored serum; the lower lobe of the right lung was hepatized, the middle and upper lobes infiltrated with pus; an abscess in the left lung communicated with the pericardium, in which was a large quantity of pus. The liver was enlarged, pale and fatty; the gall-bladder nearly empty; the spleen normal; the mesentery wasted; the stomach and intestines pallid and empty.—Act. Ass't Surgeon Thos. H. Elliott, Harewood Hospital, Washington, D. C.