Title: Powell, E. J.

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888), 818.

Keywords:diseases attributed to non-miasmatic exposuresdiseases of the respiratory organspleurisypost-mortem examinationpleurisy consecutive to measlesmeaslescongestion of fauces, tonsils, mouth and tongueeruption of measles on body and lower extremitiesdulnessdullness on one side and bronchial respirationthick, bloody, tenacious sputasputumadhesions of lung posteriorly, pseudomembrane elsewhereyellow flocculent serum in pleural cavitybronchial tubes red and injected

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e11465

TEI/XML: med.d1e11465.xml


CASE 42.—Private E. J. Powell, Co. K, 180th Ohio; age 18; admitted Feb. 5, 1865, with intense fever, dyspnœa, red eruption on face and congestion of fauces, tonsils, mouth and tongue. 6th: Eruption of measles on body and lower extremities, with abatement of fever and continuance of dyspnœa; thick, bloody, tenacious sputa​, very difficult to remove from mouth and throat; dulness​ of left side and bronchial respiration. 14th: Died. Post-mortem examination: Strong adhesions of left lung posteriorly with pseudomembrane elsewhere, and thirty-six ounces of yellow flocculent serum in the cavity; bronchial tubes red and injected.—Douglas Hospital, Washington, D. C.