Title: McVay, Marcus L.

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888), 783.

Keywords:diseases attributed to non-miasmatic exposuresdiseases of the respiratory organspneumoniapost-mortem records of catarrhal caseslobar pneumoniassecondary pneumoniasbroncho-pneumonia with no notable complicationunconnected with the eruptive feveradmitted with bronchitislungs partly hepatized in middle and upper portionsair-tubes filled with mucus streaked with bloodpericardium distended with serumheart hypertrophied

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e11190

TEI/XML: med.d1e11190.xml


CASE 3.—Private Marcus L. McVay, Co. D, 174th Ohio; age 40; admitted Feb. 6, 1865, with bronchitis. Died 9th. Post-mortem examination: Lungs much inflamed, partly hepatized in their middle and upper portions; air-tubes filled with tough mucus streaked with blood. Heart somewhat hypertrophied; pericardium distended with serum.—Stanton Hospital, Washington, D. C.