Title: Stalker, William H.

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888), 790.

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 measleslung adherent, hepatized, upper lobe infiltrated with pus

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e11287

TEI/XML: med.d1e11287.xml


CASE 51.—Private William H. Stalker, Co. I, 61st N. Y., was admitted April 20, 1864, with measles, and died May 3. Post-mortem examination: Right lung adherent and hepatized, its upper lobe infiltrated with pus; left lung, heart and abdominal viscera normal.—Act. Ass't Surgeon Jas. D. Linton, Harewood Hospital, Washington, D. C.