Title: Young, Israel

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888), 826.

Keywords:diseases attributed to non-miasmatic exposuresconsumptionpost-mortem recordstubercular destruction of the lungs and the concurrent prostration of the systeminflammatory or pseudo-inflammatory congestions and exudations, with more or less implication of the pleurarupture into pleura of tubercular abscessespleuritic effusion in pleural sac, lung compressedlung adherent at apex and diaphragmlung tuberculous

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e11479

TEI/XML: med.d1e11479.xml


CASE 57.—Private Israel Young, Co. E, 1st Va. Art'y; age 18; admitted Feb. 4, 1865, much emaciated. Died 10th. Post-mortem examination: Pleuritic effusion in right sac; right lung compressed, adherent at apex and to diaphragm, filled with vomicæ; left lung tuberculous.—Third Division Hospital, Alexandria, Va.