Title: Maust, Jacob

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888), 794.

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 lungmeaslespost-mortem examinationmoribund from pneumonia after measlespleural cavity contained serum, lung coated with lymphlower lobe of lung partly hepatized

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e11343

TEI/XML: med.d1e11343.xml


CASE 105.—Private Jacob Maust, Co. K, 116th Pa.; age 20; was admitted March 26, 1864, moribund from pneumonia after measles. He died on the 28th. Post-mortem examination: The left pleural cavity contained a pint of serum and the lung was coated with thin pasty lymph, its lower lobe being partly hepatized. [Specimen 343, Med. Sec., Army Medical Museum.]—Surgeon E. Bentley, U. S. Vols., Third Division Hospital, Alexandria, Va.