Title: Mead, Simon P.

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888), 786.

Keywords:diseases attributed to non-miasmatic exposuresdiseases of the respiratory organspneumoniapost-mortem records of catarrhal caseslobar pneumoniassecondary pneumoniasbroncho-pneumonia with implication of the pleuraunconnected with the eruptive feveradmitted with symptoms of bronchitissputasputum streaked with blood, tenacioussputasputum rustyeffusion in pericardiumserum in pleura, lung adherentlower lobe hepatized in patchesbronchi of both lungs congested, filled with tenacious sputasputumeffusion in pericardium

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e11227

TEI/XML: med.d1e11227.xml


CASE 20.—Private Simon P. Mead, Co. I, 140th Ind.; admitted Feb. 3, 1865, with symptoms of bronchitis. 12th: Expectoration difficult; sputa​ streaked with blood, tenacious. 14th: Dyspnœa increased. 15th: Small and large crepitation in both lungs. 16th: Involuntary stools; delirium; sputa​ obstructing air-passages. 17th: Sputa​ rusty; dyspnœa increased,—died. Post-mortem examination: Three pints of serum with lymph-flakes in right pleura; lung adherent, thirty-six ounces and a half, lower lobe hepatized in patches, upper lobes engorged; left lung twenty-nine ounces, somewhat engorged; bronchi of both lungs much congested and filled with tenacious sputa​; effusion in pericardium; liver eighty-four ounces; spleen eleven ounces; intestines normal.—Douglas Hospital, Washington, D. C.