Title: Wixom, Grover R.

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888), 787.

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 feverepiglottis œdematousadmitted with typhoid pneumoniaold and recent adhesionslobular pneumoniahepatization in upper and lower lobesbronchial tubes congested

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e11242

TEI/XML: med.d1e11242.xml


CASE 24.—Serg't Grover R. Wixom, Co. G, 5th Mich. Cav.; age 35; admitted March 25, 1864, with typhoid pneumonia. Died 26th. Post-mortem examination: Right lung, thirty-one ounces, with old adhesions and lobular pneumonia scattered throughout; left lung, forty-five ounces, with recent adhesions, hepatization of upper lobe and upper part of lower lobe, and much congestion of the remainder of the lung. Epiglottis vascular and œdematous; trachea and bronchial tubes congested. —Lincoln Hospital, Washington, D. C.