Roberts, Henry a machine readable transcription Susan C. Lawrence Kenneth M. Price Kenneth J. Winkle 2011 med.d1e11531 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 colored admitted with articular rheumatism rheumatism affected elbows, wrists and knees pericardium contained large amount of liquid areolar tissue of body loaded with serum symptoms of heart disease, dropsical aortic valves ulcerated peritoneal cavity loaded with serum liver fatty and cirrhosed both lower lungs hepatized kidney showed cicatrix on outer edge additional proofing of transcription and encoding, edited and added keyword terms 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 10.—Henry Roberts, colored; age 28; was admitted Dec. 29, 1865, with articular rheumatism, the elbows, wrists and knees being affected. Subsequently symptoms of heart disease set in; he became dropsical, and died in April, 1866. Post-mortem examination: The areolar tissue of the body was loaded with serum, as was also the peritoneal cavity. The right lung weighed thirty-six ounces, the left forty-two ounces; both were hepatized in their lower parts. The pericardium contained twenty-three ounces of liquid; heart and pericardium weighed fifty-two ounces,—the heart, after the removal of the pericardium and clots, weighed thirty-five and a half ounces; the aortic valves were ulcerated,—[Specimen 801, Med. Sec., Army Medical Museum]. The liver was fatty and somewhat cirrhosed; the right kidney showed a singular cicatrix on its outer edge; the left was lobulated,—[Specimen 802]. The intestines and spleen were normal.—Surgeon E. Bentley, U. S. Vols., Slough Hospital, Alexandria, Va.