Title: Brunor, Jacob

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888), 788.

Keywords:diseases attributed to non-miasmatic exposuresdiseases of the respiratory organspneumoniapost-mortem records of catarrhal caseslobar pneumoniassecondary pneumoniascases associated with the specific poison of measles, presenting little of interest beyond a specification of the appearance and locality of the affected parts of the lungadmitted with measlesjaundicepleural surfaces adherentlung hepatizedliver congested, all liquids of body yellowishspleen enlarged

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e11271

TEI/XML: med.d1e11271.xml


CASE 38.—Private Jacob Brunor, Co. C, 51st Pa.; age 18; was admitted April 9, 1865, with measles. Pneumonia and jaundice appeared on May 16, and death occurred on the 20th. Post-mortem examination: The pleural surfaces were adherent; the left lung hepatized; the middle and lower lobes of the right congested. The liver was congested; the spleen enlarged and softened. All the liquids of the body were yellowish.—Third Division Hospital, Alexandria, Va.