Title: Malling, Lewis

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 exposuresdiseases of the respiratory organspneumoniapost-mortem recordslobar pneumoniascases of coexisting tubercleapices of both lungs tuberculousexpectoration rust-coloredsordes on teeth and gumscrepitation and dulnessdullness over lower lungeffusion with bands of adhesion in pleural cavitymiddle lobe of lung congested, lower lobe consolidated, granular, friable and nutmeg-colored

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e11139

TEI/XML: med.d1e11139.xml


CASE 141.—Private Lewis Malling, Co. B, 180th Ohio; age 43; was admitted Feb. 1, 1865. Severe dyspnœa; prostration; pulse feeble, 120; sordes on teeth and gums; expectoration difficult, rust-colored; large crepitation and dulness​ over lower part of right lung. Died 4th. Post-mortem examination: Effusion with several bands of adhesion in right pleural cavity; apex of lung containing tubercular deposit, yellow and hard, surrounded by well-marked congestion, middle lobe somewhat congested, lower lobe consolidated, granular, friable and nutmeg-colored; apex of left lung tuberculous, remainder healthy. Other viscera healthy.—Douglas Hospital, Washington, D. C.