Title: Bush, Richard

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888), 778.

Keywords:diseases attributed to non-miasmatic exposuresdiseases of the respiratory organspneumoniapost-mortem recordslobar pneumoniascases of coexisting tubercleadmitted with pneumoniaboth lungs extensively adherent, in third stage of pneumoniatubercular deposits in both lungs, especially in upper lobesgallon of serum in chest and abdomen

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e11157

TEI/XML: med.d1e11157.xml


CASE 147.—Richard Bush, colored; age 13; admitted May 27, 1864, with pneumonia. Died July 18. Post-mortem examination: Both lungs were extensively adherent and appeared to be in the third stage of pneumonia, presenting also tubercular deposits, especially in the upper lobes. A gallon of serum was found in the chest and abdomen.—Hospital, Alexandria, Va.