Palfrey, Franklin C. a machine readable transcription Susan C. Lawrence Kenneth M. Price Kenneth J. Winkle 2011 med.d1e11409 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 812 Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion diseases attributed to non-miasmatic exposures disease of the respiratory organs pleurisy double pleurisies pericardium inflamed and full of serum right lung adherent and filled with tubercle left lung adherent, adhesions formed sac, contained two pints of serum admitted with scurvy post-mortem examination liquid in serous cavities of thorax pericardial effusion, distinct evidence of pericarditis 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 9.—Corp'l Franklin C. Palfrey, Co. G, 6th U. S. Inf., was admitted Dec. 30, 1862, with scurvy. He died Feb. 19, 1863. Post-mortem examination: The right lung was adherent and filled with tubercle; the left lung was also adherent, but the adhesions formed a sac which contained more than two pints of serum. The heart was normal, but the pericardium showed marks of recent inflammation and was full of serum. Altogether there were six pints of liquid in the serous cavities of the thorax. Abdominal viscera normal.—Harewood Hospital, Washington, D. C.