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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 776 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 terminated in abscess or circumscrihed disintegration of the pulmonary tissue typhoid pneumonia parotid and submaxillary glands in state of suppuration pleural sacs partly obliterated by adhesions, contained serum lower lobe of lung hepatized, middle and upper lobes infiltrated with pus abscess in lung communicated with pericardium pericardium contained large quantity pus liver enlarged mesentery wasted 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 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.