Title: Yerks, 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), 795.

Keywords:diseases attributed to non-miasmatic exposuresdiseases of the respiratory organspneumoniapost-mortem records of catarrhal caseslobar pneumoniassecondary pneumoniascases notable only in having coexisting tuberclelung contained unsoftened tuberclescrofulaadmitted with scrofulous bubomeaslespost-mortem examinationfatal pleuro-pneumonialung hepatized throughout

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e11352

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CASE 110.—Private William H. Yerks, Co. I, 6th N. Y. Heavy Art'y; age 35; was admitted Feb. 19, 1864, with scrofulous bubo. On March 5 he was attacked with measles. Pleuro-pneumonia supervened and proved fatal on the 23d. Post-mortem examination: Larynx and trachea inflamed. Left lung hepatized throughout; right containing unsoftened tubercle in its upper portion.—Third Division Hospital, Alexandria, Va.