Title: Vandercrook, Dan.

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888), 777.

Keywords:diseases attributed to non-miasmatic exposuresdisease of the respiratory organspneumonialobar pneumoniapost-mortem recordsin gangreneon admission fever, delirium, and pneumonia of right sidetyphoid fevercoexisting tuberculosissputasputum profuse and fetid, odor of breath intolerablepleuritic adhesions involving lower lobegangrene of half of lungtubercular deposits in apices of both lungs

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e11133

TEI/XML: med.d1e11133.xml


CASE 138.—Dan. Vandercrook, Co. D, 17th Pa. Cav.; age 21; admitted June 15, 1863. Diagnosis: Typhoid fever. On admission there was much fever with delirium and pneumonia of the right side. On the 20th he coughed a good deal and expectorated profusely, the fever having meanwhile abated, leaving him rational. By the 27th he was noticeably gaining strength, but on the 29th his cough became constant, sputa​ profuse, grumous and fetid and the odor of his breath intolerable. He grew rapidly worse, and died July 3. Post-mortem examination: Pleuritic adhesions on right side, involving lower lobe; gangrene of half of right lung and inflammation and softening of the other half; tubercular deposits in apices of lungs.—Act. Ass't Surgeon W. J. Hazelton, Fairfax Seminary, Va.