Title: Speiser, Daniel

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 hepatized gray

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e11294

TEI/XML: med.d1e11294.xml


CASE 52.—Private Daniel Speiser, Co. G, 39th Ill., was admitted April 4, 1864, with measles, and died on the 14th. Post-mortem examination: Right lung hepatized gray; left much congested; liver and kidneys healthy; spleen congested, weighing thirteen ounces.—Act. Ass't Surgeon C. W. Fillmore, Harewood Hospital, Washington, D. C.