Yerks, William H. a machine readable transcription Susan C. Lawrence Kenneth M. Price Kenneth J. Winkle 2011 med.d1e11352 Civil War Washington University of Nebraska–Lincoln Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
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 The following are responsible for particular readings or for changes to this file, as noted: Matthew Bosley Elizabeth Lorang Stacey Berry Elisabeth Tracey The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion Washington, DC Government Printing Office Part 3 Volume 1 1888 795 Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion diseases attributed to non-miasmatic exposures diseases of the respiratory organs pneumonia post-mortem records of catarrhal cases lobar pneumonias secondary pneumonias cases notable only in having coexisting tubercle lung contained unsoftened tubercle scrofula admitted with scrofulous bubo measles post-mortem examination fatal pleuro-pneumonia lung hepatized throughout additional proofing of transcription and encoding, edited and added keyword terms additional proofing of transcription and encoding, edited and added keyword terms additional proofing of transcription and encoding case text extracted and transformed from larger file Encoding and Proofing Initial Checking OCR Text to PDF file,

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.