Hickson, Wm. H. a machine readable transcription Susan C. Lawrence Kenneth M. Price Kenneth J. Winkle 2011 med.d1e11203 Civil War Washington University of Nebraska–Lincoln Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
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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 784 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 of catarrhal cases lobar pneumonias secondary pneumonias broncho-pneumonia with no notable complication unconnected with the eruptive fever admitted with pain in right hypochondrium and shoulder attacks of inflammation of liver cavities filled with pus in both lungs 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 6.—Private Wm. H. Hickson, Co. C, 3d Pa. Heavy Art'y; age 24; admitted Jan. 10, 1865, from Prince street prison with pain in the right hypochondrium and shoulder; tongue pale, furred lightly, white at base; skin yellow; some frontal headache; constipation; pulse 80; slight cough. He says he has had several attacks of inflammation of liver. Died January 27. Post-mortem examination: Right lung mostly crepitant, anterior edge of middle lobe quite so, firm, elastic, grayish-yellow color with fine pigmented spots, occasional white spots and some smooth-walled ramifying cavities filled with pus; left lung hardened in places, a cicatrix in the apex and a cavity filled with pus situated deep within the lung.—Third Division Hospital, Alexandria, Va.