Title: Davis, Isaac

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888), 813.

Keywords:diseases attributed to non-miasmatic exposuresdisease of the respiratory organspleurisypleurisies of the right sideeffused serum or adhesion from plastic exudation mainly confined to right sideright pleural sac contained effused serumpost-mortem examinationright lung collapsed, old and recent adhesionsleft lung everywhere adherent, lower lobe hepatized

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e11422

TEI/XML: med.d1e11422.xml


CASE 15.—Private Isaac Davis, Co. I, 9th V. R. Corps, was admitted Feb. 23, 1864, and died March 31. Post-mortem examination: Body not much emaciated. The right pleural sac contained six pints of serum; the lung was collapsed and had old adhesions on its inner, upper and posterior surfaces and recent adhesions on its outer surface. The left lung was everywhere adherent, some of the adhesions appearing to be recent, and its lower lobe was hepatized.—Act. Ass't Surgeon N. T. Martin, Harewood Hospital, Washington, D. C.