Buck, John a machine readable transcription Susan C. Lawrence Kenneth M. Price Kenneth J. Winkle 2011 med.d1e11524 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 831 Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion diseases attributed to non-miasmatic exposures rheumatic affections acute rheumatism clinical or post-mortem records death generally due to implication of the heart admitted with rheumatic fever dyspnœa, countenance anxious action of heart tumultuous pericardium thick and opaque, contained serum and lymph endocardium injected 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 8.—Private John Buck, Co. G, 7th Wis., was admitted March 19, 1865, with rheumatic fever. On April 4 he had diarrhœa and gastric irritation. Two days later dyspnœa was added to his symptoms and his countenance became anxious; the action of the heart was tumultuous, the area of cardiac dulnessdullness increased and the pulse small, irregular and intermittent. Death occurred on the 8th. Post-mortem examination: The pericardium, which was thick and opaque, contained six ounces of serum and lymph; the endocardium was injected; the chordæ tendineæ in the right ventricle showed some adherent fibrin; the left ventricle contained a fibrinous clot.—Act. Ass't Surgeon J. H. Brownlow, Harewood Hospital, Washington, D. C.