Title: Lockwood, L. D.

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888), 881.

Keywords:on certain local diseasesidiopathic peritonitisperitoneum contained creamy pus

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e11696

TEI/XML: med.d1e11696.xml


CASE 12.—Private L. D. Lockwood, Co. G, 22d N. Y. Cav.; age 17; admitted April 28, 1864. Died May 6. Post-mortem examination: Brain, lungs and heart healthy. The stomach was much congested at its cardiac extremity. The intestines were anæmic. The peritoneum contained a half-pint of creamy pus. The liver was soft and flabby; the spleen anæmic; the kidneys flabby, their pyramids congested.—Lincoln Hospital, Washington, D.C.